CMD: Sleep and hit any key, at the same time?

Question

Hello,

i have this batch file, which makes constantly a loop. I want the user to be able to terminate it in the batch, not just clicking the X.

This is what i need (somehow):

@echo off
:proc
cls
rem All kind of stuff...
echo Hit any key to terminate...
sleep 1
@pause>nul

But, of course, sleep and pause can't work at the same time.

How is it possible?

Answer 1

Remove the pause and change the message to "Hit Ctrl-C to terminate". Presumably the script has a "goto :proc" that you are not showing?