Windows 7 Portable Command Guide: MCTS 70-680, and MCITP 70-685 and 70-686

Chapter 6. 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

• Logging events with eventcreate

• Looping through tasks with for

• Creating a menu file

Using Notepad

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, and you can start scripting by creating basic batch files in Notepad. One of the great things about the command prompt is that anything you can execute at the command ...