The sleep.exe command is, alas, not included by default on most editions of Windows. You can get it in a number of Resource Kits (here's one) but that can be a drag when your script needs to run on hosts which may or may not have it. Here's a simple workaround for your cmd scripts:
ping -w 1000 -n 10 0.0.0.0 >nul
It's just a ping of an always-bad address (0.0.0.0) with a wait time of 1 second (-w 1000), repeated 10 times (-n 10), and the output redirected to nul so it doesn't clutter up your screen. Obviously you can change the -n parameter to whatever number of seconds you need. Or change the -w parameter, which is in milliseconds. There are 1000 milliseconds in 1 second.
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