I use simple windows batch scripting to automate some software development I do. The one thing that is hanging me up is the final step where I zip all the files up into a self-extracter. I want to ...

Learn about the features in Windows Script Host and its native scripting engines, VBScript and JScript, that make automating just about any Windows task a snap. Are you a big batch file advocate ...

Windows only: The SysInternals suite of utilities, including the excellent Process Explorer tool, are a must-have for any serious geek, but they don't come with a built-in way to keep them updated.

The following sample batch script would copy a specific text file from one folder to another while renaming it, then copy all Microsoft Word documents created in the last year from drive C to ...

I'm posting this here and in the programmers' forum, since it's both a programming issue and a system administration issue.I want to create a batch script in Windows XP that will do the following ...

Today I've got a Windows batch script that saves a copy of your working documents into dated folders that give you easy access to previous versions of your most important files.

We show you how to create a ZIP file using a Batch file. You can make use of the command-line interface 7-Zip software in Windows 11/10.

Batch files, though far less sophisticated than their Unix shell script counterparts, nonetheless have many of the important features that I have become accustomed to working with on my Unix systems.