Suggest a User Friendly IDE & Book for Batch File Programmin

[bsudhir6]

Hi Guys,

In office I have to make many automations with DOS commands. I wanted to use Batch files but I don't know their specific commands.

Can anyone suggest a good IDE & Books for learning how to create Batch Files.

[foxidrive]

There is the built-in help that is very useful.

In a cmd prompt you can type help to get a list of commands,
and a useful command to page through long text is more
so you can pipe the help text output through more like this:

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help|more

Then each command you see listed has further help available by adding /? after the command name.

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dir /?
xcopy /?
more /?
copy /?

and remember that you can add the more filter again at the end like this to get a page at a time:

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robocopy /?|more
xcopy /?|more

Ask specific questions here and someone may help you too.

[ShadowThief]

Whenever people ask me about batch commands, I usually direct them to http://ss64.com/nt/

To my knowledge, there's no IDE for batch beyond text editors with syntax highlighting.

[penpen]

This should be helpful, too: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490890.aspx.

penpen

[sivasriram]

Hi i m pretty new to write codes for batch files, can anyone guide me the sources to learn more coding for batch files.


any sites , links , videos and pdf material sharing is highly thankful

[Samir]

I good way to get batch programming down is to first understand the syntax and operators. There's several good sources for this.

The next step (which never ends) is to see how these are used to make different things happen, like the functions found here on dostips. Study these and you'll learn different ways of putting the features and syntax of batch together to make different things happen.

[ShadowThief]

Hi i m pretty new to write codes for batch files, can anyone guide me the sources to learn more coding for batch files.


any sites , links , videos and pdf material sharing is highly thankful

I recommend looking at the three posts directly above yours.