In this Daily Drill Down, I’ll show you how to create batch files to help automate tasks. There are many uses for batch files, even in the world of Windows 2000. Any task that can be performed from a ...

You can stop or prevent Command Prompt from closing immediately after opening or executing a batch file using Pause, cmd /k or editing Registry.

Hi, I am trying to write an ever so small batch file that simply runs the following command.<BR><BR>subst B: "C Documents and Settings\Bob\My Documents"<BR><BR>I want to write this as a batch (.bat) ...

If you need a computer on your network to automatically perform a file copy as soon as Windows loads -- such as to back up a particular file to your company's server -- the simplest method is to ...

Robocopy is a built-in Windows 11 tool that allows you to copy files from one place to another. It’s a command-line tool, ...

One of the other problems that I ran into when trying to make my DOS prompt behave more like my Unix systems was how to invoke my carefully crafted macros every time I opened a new DOS command window.

Hi all,I am trying to run a sql script inside a .bat file. If I do this manually:sqlplus user/pass@dbname@How do I automate this? Basically, I want to connect to the db and run the script all in a ...