Skipping Command in CMD batch file

Question

I'm using pstools to shutdown local pcs .. with different user & pass

psshutdown \\10.0.0.1 -u 1 -p 1 psshutdown \\10.0.0.2 -u 2 -p 2 psshutdown \\10.0.0.3 -u 3 -p 3 

problem is : if one of them is down the batch take a lot of time to move to the next one ... How can i skip to the next command after some time .. or but it in a loop ... Any ideas ?

Answer 1

According to the docs, you can set a timeout for connecting to the remote machine with the -n <seconds> option:

psshutdown \\10.0.0.1 -u 1 -p 1 -n 5