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The Windows command line is a commonly used tool for IT support and system administration.
Batch scripting is a tool for automating the command line.
If you are learning one of these, it makes sense to learn both.

Learn both here!

In this book, you learn how to:
- get information about your computer and its contents
- customize the command ("cmd") window
- open files and run programs
- navigate the file system
- read text from, and write it into, files
- restart local and remote computers on a network
- process numbers and text
- automate all of the above by using batch scripts
- and more

This is a book for people who want to learn command line and batch scripting fast.

It features:
- a step-by-step approach, with new concepts building on earlier ones
- teaching by examples
- concise explanations
- practice exercises, with answers
- the bigger picture: how and why commands may be used

This book is the first of a three-part course.

Try part one today!

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 26, 2015

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Profile Image for Stefan Teixeira.
27 reviews4 followers
July 15, 2015
Good introduction to batch scripting. The book has some good examples and it's easy to read.
Profile Image for ilya murychev.
139 reviews2 followers
September 28, 2026
The language is very clear, and there are plenty of exercises to reinforce the material. It’s exactly what I need.
For instance, there’s a book called *Batch Scripting: From Fundamentals to Advanced Automation*; to me, the writing style in that one is much more difficult.


Очень понятный язык и много задач, которые позволяют закрепить материал. То что мне нужно. Например есть книга Batch-scripting-from-fundamentals-to-advanced-automation. По мне, так она намного тяжелее в смысле языка изложения.
Profile Image for Amcii Cullum.
115 reviews23 followers
September 11, 2016
Don't bother with this as you shouldn't bother with a computer that has a Windows Operating System on it.
Sorry, for those who still enjoy using Windows products.
Seriously, though, this book is quite a bit outdated.
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