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Date : May 12, 2009

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MS DOS Commands, Wild Cards, Input/Output Redirection and Variables

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Published on: May 12, 2009

While I was looking for ways to make my life easier by automating things, I rediscovered the MS DOS batch features of the latest MS DOS release and even more extended version of MS DOS for the early Microsoft Windows 32 bit Operating Systems, like Windows 95, Windows CE and Windows 98 (dubbed MS DOS 7). You can accomplish a lot of things right from the DOS prompt without needing to program fancy Windows Applications or something like that. Many things where I thought the use of ???real??? programming languages like Visual Basic or VBScript would be necessary, can be accomplished by using sequences of MS DOS commands in a Batch File (.BAT). BATCH commands are supported by any Microsoft Windows Operation System right out of the box. You do not have to install anything, not mess around with permissions nor do you require Administrator rights and permission to write, edit or execute batch scripts. The Basics for Newbies To learn about the available commands and functions that you can use in BATCH files, open a MS DOS window first. To do that, click on ???Start???, then ???Run???, type ???cmd??? and then press the ENTER key on your keyboard. In the MS DOS window type ???help??? and then press ENTER. Returned will be a list of commands with a brief description of their purpose right next to each of them. Type ???help COMMAND???, where COMMAND stands for any command that was listed by ???help???, to get a detailed documentation and[…]

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