Good resources and books for scripting

[Guest happytoday]

I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

systems (Dos,Windows,Linux....) describing batching in general and

comparison way between all operating systems . If not possible please

specify the good ones for (Dos,Windows) only.

 

Thanks

[Guest db.·.. >]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

you can find all lots

of scripting information

and tools at microsoft.com

 

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"happytoday" <ehabaziz2001@gmail.com> wrote in message news:688e8c2c-23c5-4708-bbf1-e7e995dfbea9@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

>I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

> learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

> systems (Dos,Windows,Linux....) describing batching in general and

> comparison way between all operating systems . If not possible please

> specify the good ones for (Dos,Windows) only.

>

> Thanks

[Guest Todd Vargo]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

happytoday wrote:

> I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

> learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

> systems (Dos,Windows,Linux....) describing batching in general and

> comparison way between all operating systems . If not possible please

> specify the good ones for (Dos,Windows) only.

 

Even if you read every book written on batch files, you still would not

learn as much as hands on trial and error will teach you. Begin with the OS

you will actually be using and go from there.

 

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Todd Vargo

(Post questions to group only. Remove "z" to email personal messages)

[Guest foxidrive]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:38:42 -0400, "Todd Vargo" <tlvargo@sbcglobal.netz>

wrote:

>happytoday wrote:

>> I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

>> learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

>> systems (Dos,Windows,Linux....) describing batching in general and

>> comparison way between all operating systems . If not possible please

>> specify the good ones for (Dos,Windows) only.

>

>Even if you read every book written on batch files, you still would not

>learn as much as hands on trial and error will teach you. Begin with the OS

>you will actually be using and go from there.

 

I think that's a good way of learning too, particularly because there are

so many techniques that are not documented by MS.

 

Timo Salmi's FAQ gives many examples and answers many questions - then

stick around in alt.msdos.batch.nt which covers NT/W2K/XP/Vista etc and

lots of knowledgeable people lurk there.

[Guest Klaus Meinhard]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

happytoday wrote:

> I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

> learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

> systems (Dos,Windows,Linux....) describing batching in general and

> comparison way between all operating systems . If not possible please

> specify the good ones for (Dos,Windows) only.

 

There are many links on my site in the DOS Links section - it's a bit

dated, but probably quite a few links are still functioning.

 

--

* Klaus Meinhard *

4DOS Info - Info for DOS

http://www.4dos.info

[Guest mik3l3374@gmail.com]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

On Aug 25, 8:34 pm, happytoday <ehabaziz2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

> learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

> systems (Dos,Windows,Linux....) describing batching in general and

> comparison way between all operating systems  . If not possible please

> specify the good ones for (Dos,Windows) only.

>

> Thanks

 

If you want to learn cross platform languages, you can start with

Python or Perl.

[Guest Richard Bonner]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

happytoday (ehabaziz2001@gmail.com) wrote:

> I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

> learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

> systems (Dos, Windows, Linux....) describing batching in general and

> comparison between all operating systems. If not possible, please

> specify the good ones for (Dos, Windows) only.

 

*** Although over a decade old, an excellent book for batch files is

"The Ultimate Batch File Book" by Ronny Richarson. It discusses a number

of platform variations. Also, look for magazine articles by Hardin

Brothers.

 

Focusing more on DOS, other books I would recommend are "Running

MS-DOS" by Van Wolverton and "Power DOS" by Alfred Glossbrenner.

________

 

As for the Internet, there are many, many batch file tutorials. My

one on the basics is at:

 

http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/BatBasic.html

 

Links from there take one to a good number of examples. Note that I

advocate incorportaing after-market utilities as needed, so purists may

object to my methods.

 

 

For other tutorials, see "BATCH FILE TIPS, TUTORIALS and UTILITIES"

at:

http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Websites.html

 

 

Richard Bonner

http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/

[Guest Franc Zabkar]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:34:37 -0700 (PDT), happytoday

<ehabaziz2001@gmail.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>I need to know what are the good books Or internet resources for

>learning writing batch files and scripts for all kind of operating

>systems (Dos,Windows,Linux....) describing batching in general and

>comparison way between all operating systems . If not possible please

>specify the good ones for (Dos,Windows) only.

>

>Thanks

 

Interactive (MS-DOS) Batch Course:

http://www.allenware.com/icsw/icswidx.htm

 

- Franc Zabkar

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Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

[Guest Richard Bonner]

Re: Good resources and books for scripting

 

Franc Zabkar (fzabkar@iinternode.on.net) wrote:

> Interactive (MS-DOS) Batch Course:

> http://www.allenware.com/icsw/icswidx.htm

> - Franc Zabkar

 

*** An excellent site. Its sitemaster used to be a regular here.

 

Richard Bonner

http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/