(DOS) commands and their usage in batch files

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  ...plus, of course, some answers...
• Batch file How Tos
• Batch file examples in alphabetical order
• Search the batch file examples by function
• Solutions found on alt.msdos.batch
• More clever tricks
• Third Party batch files
• Useful commands for Windows administrators
• Ports of some UNIX shell commands to Rexx scripts and batch files
• The Poor Man's Administrator Tools (use native commands only)
• Terminal Server commands
• Short Command Line Tips ("Shorts")
• Undocumented commands
• Useless tips?
• Batch file related links
• Batch file utilities
• Debugging your batch file
• Using ANSI sequences to enhance batch files
• Using Arrays in batch files
• The AT scheduler
• Strange behavior of ATTRIB
• AUTOEXEC.BAT
• OS/2's AUTOFAIL command (a little off topic but very useful)
• How to use CHOICE
• Using CALL
• NT's COLOR command
• Command line parameters
• COMMAND.COM parameters, SHELL and COMSPEC
• Comments in batch files
• Conditional execution
• DATE and TIME
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  (Ab)using DEBUG in batch files
• DEL
• DOS Devices
• DEVCON, Microsoft's command line device manager
• Tips on using DIR
• Windows Server 2003's Directory Service command line tools
• Batch generated e-mail
• ENDLOCAL (OS/2, Windows NT 4 and later)
• Errorlevels
• Display error messages in the local system language
• Escape characters
• EXIT batch code
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  FDISK
• The FIND command
• Use FINDRAMD to find the RAM drive letter (Windows 9x)
• The FINDSTR command (Windows 2000 and later)
• Basic FOR loops in DOS
• FOR loops in NT
  • Hands-on variable expansion in FOR loops with exercises
  • NT's FOR /F tokens & delimiters explained step by step
• FORMAT diskettes
• Unattended FTP
• GOTO, or: "How To Avoid 'Spaghetti Code'"
• IF statements
• Using the MEM command
• NET.EXE
• Notepad tips & tricks
• Abuse of the PATH command
• Generate popup messages
• Print files from the command line
• Control printers (Windows 2000)
• Managing Windows processes
• Using the PROMPT
• RAS and DUN (Dial-Up Networking)
• READLINE (internal command for OS/2's COMMAND.COM)
• Redirection
• How to read, add or modify Windows registry entries with REGEDIT
• RUNDLL and RUNDLL32
• XP's SCHTASKS command
• The SET command
• SETLOCAL (OS/2, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000)
• CONFIG.SYS' SHELL command
• Use SHIFT for command line parsing
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  Shutdown and reboot for several OSs
• Use START to start other programs from within a batch file (OS/2 and NT)
• Display a file's or directory's TRUENAME
• The TYPE command
• User input, or: "How To Make Your Batch Files Interactive"
• Mount and access VHD files as virtual disk drives with VHDMount
• WMI queries with WMIC
• NT's XCOPY