BATCH FILE PROGRAMING

Ok. So here is the best batch tutorial ever made.

Lets start:-

To start off, there is the @echo off/on
and there is echo
and pause

So here is an example:

Quote:

@echo off
echo Hello This is a test
pause

Type this in notepad and save as test.bat
Launch it and it will look like this.

Quote:

Hello This is a test
Press any key to continue..

Again open notepad and write:

Quote:

@echo on
echo Hello This is a test
pause

and save it on the desktop as test2.bat

Quote:

Launch it and it will look like this

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop>echo Hello This is a test
Hello This is a test
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop>pause
Press any key to continue

So for the explanation

@echo off/on:
if you put @echo on it will show the directory as you just saw
if you put @echo off it will just show the words with no directories
So its best to use @echo off


echo:

If you want to type a simple phrase just type in echo and something in this case: echo Hello This is a test
which will show Hello This is a test

pause

pause will pause the batch file. If you press a key the batch will continue. In this case it will exit because there is no more left.

So try this:

Quote:

@echo off
echo Hello This is a test
pause
echo I am testing pause
pause

This will show

Quote:

Hello This is a test
Press Any Key To Continue...
(when you press a key it will show)
I am testing a pause
Press Any key to continue..

So that convers the pause command


Now some more commands


There is msg * and there is cls

Open notepad and write:

Quote:

@echo off
echo Hello This is a test
pause
cls
echo I am testing pause
msg * The End
pause

and save as test3.bat

This will show

Quote:

Hello This is a test
Press Any Key To Continue...
(when you press a key it will show)
cls
(the page will clear)
I am testing a pause
(a pop-up will show saying The End)
Press Any key to continue..

So .. cls will just clear the screen and msg * will bring up a pop-up


Other commands are REM and goto and start

So create a folder name it Test
Put any picture inside and name it testpic
Open notepad and type

Quote:

@echo off
echo Testing start and rem
rem title Test
start testpic.jpg (or any other extension)
pause

and save it inside the new folder as test4.bat

launch it , it will show:

Quote:

Testing start and rem
Press Any Key To Continue
(and the picture will launch)

So start will launch any file and rem is a remark.. which wont show in the bat file when running

Now the goto and set and if

type this inside notepad:

Quote:

@echo off
echo This is a test
echo If you want to do math type 1 and press enter
echo If you want to see a picture type 2 and press enter
set /p option=
if '%option%'=='1' goto :math
if '%option%'=='2' start testpic.jpg (or any extension)

:math
echo 2+2
pause

and save it inside the new folder

This will show

Quote:

This is a test
If you want to do math type 1 and press enter
if you want to see a picture type 2 and press enter
(here you can type 1 or 2 and press enter)
(if you press 2 and Enter the picture will load)
(if you press 1 and enter this will show up):
2+2
Press any key to continue.

So goto will go to a Label or a Part of the file
When you put :Math, a new label will be named Math and when you put goto :math the batch will go to :math



set

The set option will set something. Here its going to set :choice
The set is, in some options followed by if
So if I type 1 in this example:-
the "choice" will be 1 .. and it will go to :math because we put
if '%choice%'=='1' goto :math

so if we put 1 the choice will be 1 therefore it will goto :math


Anyway those are the basics..
stay on rapidpiracy.com and wait for more batch tutorials.. Next time it will be more advanced




Now, I am going to talk about call, exit and SHIFT

Go into notepad and type this:

Quote:

@echo off
echo yay me i know the basics of batch
call call.bat
pause
exit
and save in a new folder:)
Then open note pad and type this again:
Quote:
@echo off
echo I Love S*X
pause

and save in the same folder that you save the last one... and name it call.bat

launch the first one

This will show:

Quote:

yay me i know the basics of batch
I Love S*X
Press Any Key To Continue....
(when you press a key the below will appear)
Press Any Key To Continue
and when you press a key it will exit

ok.. so now you know what exit does. It exits the file and calls
So now for SHIFT which is a little hard so try to understand




SHIFT

If Command Extensions are enabled the SHIFT command supports the /n switch which tells the command to start shifting at the nth argument, where n euh.. can be between zero and eight.
Just like this 1 below


SHIFT /2

would shift %3 to %2, %4 to %3, etc. and leave %0 and %1 ..euh.. how can i say it.. .:S.. unaffected yea thats the word .

Examples



The below has got to be saved as .bat. So just name it test.bat
Quote:

@ECHO OFF
ECHO - %1
SHIFT
ECHO - %1

After creating the above example test.bat file, if you were to type the below command at the MS-DOS prompt, it would print "- ONE" and then "- TWO"; this command is commonly used to work through each of the command extensions or remove command extensions.

Ok I hope you understand


Now, we will learn how to launch windows applications:

Type in notepad:

Quote:

@echo off
echo I am testing notepad!
start /MIN notepad
pause


This will show:

Quote:

i am testing notepad
(and notepad will start minimized.. if you put /MAX instead of /MIN it will launch maximized)
Press Any Key To Continue

Now lets learn how to put a timeout inside a batch..

Go to notepad and type:

Quote:

@echo off
echo i am trying timeout
set wait=0
:pause1
set /a wait=%wait%+1
if %wait% leq 1000 goto pause1
echo IT WORKED!\
pause

Don't understand the command.. just copy paste it.. or memorize it .. if i tell you the explanation it will take years!!..

So this will show:

Quote:
i am trying timeout
(couple of seconds and.. )
Press Any Key To Continue...
Now ill teach you how to change the TIME

Go to notepad and type:

Quote:

@echo off
echo Gee!.. i wonder what time it is!!
TIME 5:50
echo Oh so its 5:50
pause

This will show:

Quote:
Gee!.. i wonder what time its is!!
Oh so its 5:50
The TIME will just change The TIME





Now the Color

Go into notepad and type this:

Quote:

@echo off
echo trying the colors
pause
color 04
echo testing
pause
color f
echo trying
pause
color 4f
echo trying
pause
04=background black and font red
f the font will be white
4f = background red and f = white

Here are the list(that can be found by cmd>color help)

Quote:

0=black
1=blue
2=green
3=aqua
4=red
5=purple
6=yellow
7=white
8=gray
9=light blue
a=light green
b=light aqua
c=light red
d=light purple
e=light yellow
f=bright white

Now the title:

Type this in notepad:

Quote:

@echo off
tile Test
echo trying the title
pause

This will show the title Test When you launch it!!

Lets try Shutdown/Restart

Type this in Notepad:

Quote:

@echo off
START C:\Windows\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindowsexec
exit

The above will restart

Quote:

@echo off
Shut down the computer
C:\Windows\RUNDLL32.EXE user,exitwindows
exit

The Above will Shutdown

So, thats it. I hope it was useful to you. It is just a basic batch tutorial. You will find more tutorials on RP made by RP members. So, keep searching for them.

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