CompTIA A+ Test Prep – Batch File

Batch File:

A batch file, created by a word processor, contains a list of DOS commands that are executed as if each was typed and entered one at a time. To identify the file, MS-DOS uses the file extension, .BAT (short for batch).

A batch file can do the following:

Reduce Effort; instead of typing long commands repetitively, type them once in a batch file.
Remap keys
Automate commands
Automate startup

Create a batch file using notepad. The batch file should do the following things:

clear the screen

CLS

change your prompt so that it displays your first name

PROMPT $PCHRISTINE$G

make a directory named subdir1 in the root directory

CD \
This command is unnecessary if the batch file is run from the root directory

MD SUBDIR1

make a subdirectory named subdir2 in the subdir1 directory

MD SUBDIR1\SUBDIR2

Or the following two steps;

CD SUBDIR1

Change to Subdir1 directory

MD SUBDIR2

move the text file you created in #1 from the root directory to subdir2

MOVE C:\CHRISTINE C:\SUBDIR1\SUBDIR2

list the directory of subdir2

DIR SUBDIR2

Or

CD SUBDIR2
DIR

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Note: These are notes from my lectures as an IT instructor. Notes are from 1999-2001, so there may be little relevance to contemporary technologies. Still, it seemed like a shame to delete all of this work, so here they are. I hope someone finds them helpful.