Windows Server 2008 Portable Command Guide: MCTS 70-640, 70-642, 70-643, and MCITP 70-646, 70-647

Chapter 4. Creating Batch Files

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Using Notepad

• Giving feedback with echo

• Using parameters

• Calling another batch file with call

• Clearing the screen with cls

• Changing the order of processing with goto

• Checking conditions with if

Using Notepad

Most students who have attended one of my classes on the command prompt, batch files, or PowerShell have heard me say this: “The difference between a good administrator and a great administrator is that great administrators have learned to script.”

You don’t even have to be a great scripter, but when you can automate some of your tasks, you can do much more than the good administrator who does tasks manually. You ...