[TUTORIAL] Batch Basic Tutorial/Reference

[The High Roller]

 

Batch, although many people think is "nooby and useless" has many, MANY uses, for windows of course.

 

Lets start off with some basic commands.

 

@echo off : This command is not essential, it only makes the appearance of your batch program look neater, by turning off all the pretext that is inside of batch programs.

 

pause : This sets a pause in the program, prompting the user to press any key to continue.

 

cls : cls clears all the text on the screen.

 

exit : This, obviously, exits the program.

 

echo : this "echos" the text you put after the command. For example: "echo Hello World!" prints Hello World! on the screen.

 

color : This sets the color of the text. The colors are defined below:

 

0 = Black      8 = Gray

1 = Blue        9 = Light Blue

2 = Green      A = Light Green

3 = Aqua        B = Light Aqua

4 = Red        C = Light Red

5 = Purple      D = Light Purple

6 = Yellow      E = Light Yellow

7 = White      F = Bright White

 

" " : Quotation marks open the process set inside the quotation marks. For example:

"www.google.com" Will open Google.com.

 

Finally, at the end of coding a program, click file > save as > any_name.bat.

 

Now lets smash up all of these commands into one program.

 

@echo off

color a

echo This is my first program!

pause

cls

echo I hope you enjoy it!

pause

cls

echo Now here is a great forum you should try out!

pause

cls

"www.maxcheaters.com"

pause

cls

echo Thats it for now!

pause

exit

 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial!

 

Let me know if you want another Batch tutorial.

 

 

Regards:

 

High Roller