I have tried searching around and didn't really turn up much in the way of a tutorial kinda site. I have primarly been focused on web developement till I started coming around this site. I would like to know if there is a web site or something out there that has a pretty good beginers tutorial on how to creat batch files. Or if there is something on this site that I just haven't found yet or I wasn't searching for the right words. thanks for your time.

Hello sedd_18

I can’t really tell you how to learn it, but may i suggest that you take a look at this site:

http://www.ss64.com/nt/

It tells you in details about all the commands available from the command prompt.

Good look and happy programming!

Kind Regard.

Martin Andersen

Nice link, very usefull

Cheers

MC.

very interesting link, lots of good information there. Is there any books you might recomend to try to learn this stuff? Thanks again for your time.

I have never read books on the subject, I find that it is easier to have a problem you want to solve, and work on solving it, learning snippets along the way.

However everyone learns differently, you have a PC, so use it

• Free interactive Batch Course

http://www.allenware.com/icsw/icswidx.htm
Batch Reference with examples http://www.allenware.com/icsw/icswref.htm

I had found this link somewhere on a "how to learn batch" topic on msfn :

%windir%\hh.exe ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\ntcmds.chm::/ntcmds.htm

(copy/paste the line in the run box)

I have never read books on the subject, I find that it is easier to have a problem you want to solve, and work on solving it, learning snippets along the way.

That's how I did it too!

wow that allenware site is great, its gonna take me a while to get thru all that. I was looking into being able to write my own custom install files and have been reading a lot of the material on here. Is there anything else besides writing batch files that I should look into learning as well? Thanks again for all your help with this, you guys have been awesome

%windir%\hh.exe ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\ntcmds.chm::/ntcmds.htm

Waou Delprat!

I was about to say: 'Just type help at a cmd prompt', but your tip gives the same information in a much more readable form.

I'll only have to remember the whole command line ... because I don't understand it in full