[TUT] Batch Tutorial

Here We Go


We Will Do It Step By Step

To Start Off There Is The @echo off/on
And There Is echo
And pause

So Here Is An Example 

@echo off
echo Hello This is a test
pause

Type This In Notepad And Save As Test.bat
Launch It
It Will Look Like This



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




Again Open Notepad And Write:


@echo on
echo Hello This is a test
pause

And Save It On The Desktop As Test2.bat
Launch It , 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 offecho:
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


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

This Will Show

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:



@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


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:D

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


@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:


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

So start Will Launch Any File
And rem Is A Ramark.. Which Wont Show In The Bat File When Running

Now The goto And set And if

Type This Inside Notepad


@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


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 Vatch Will Go To :mathset
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 [reed]goto :math



Now I Am Going To Talk About Call,Exit,And SHIFT?

Go Into Notepad And Type This


@echo off
echo yay me i know the basics of batch
call call.bat
pause
exit

And Save In A New Folder

Then Open Notepad And Type This Again


@echo off
echo I Love You
pause

And Save In The Same Folder That You Saved The Last One And Name It Call.bat

Launch The First One
This Will Show


yay me i know the basics of batch
I Love You
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 Call ,Calls In Another Batch File!!..
So Now For SHIFT Which Is A Little Hard So Try To Understand

SHIFT [/n]

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 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 . how can i say it

Examples

the below has got to be saved as .bat.. so just name it test

@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.
(SHIFT , i mean the explanation... i got it from a website and edited it)

Ok I hope you understand



Now we will learn how to launch windows applications:
type in notepad:


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

This will show


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..

goto notepad and type:


@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

dont understand the command.. just copy paste it.. or memorize it .. if i tell you the explanation it will take alot of time!!..

so this will show :


i am trying timeout
(couple of seconds and.. )
Press Any Key To Continue...

Now ill teach you how to change the TIME

goto notepad and type:


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

this will show:


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


@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)
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

So this will show it

now the title

type this in notepad


@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

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

The above will restart


@echo off
Shut down the computer

C:\Windows\RUNDLL32.EXE user,exitwindows
exit

The Above will Shutdown

Well Thats It For Now Enjoy These !!