Computerworld

Unix Tip: Use your Unix scripting skills to write a batch file

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...
Ars Technica

DOS batch file help: How can I select a file by a wildcard match? (M*=MyDocs)

I want to write a simple batch file that will select a given file in a directory, the file always has the same first 2 letters, but after that it has a different numerical value for the rest of the ...
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Trying to write a DOS-based script to parse/edit a text file

I need to write a script that will do the following:<UL TYPE=SQUARE><BR><LI>Look for a file based on the format DayMonthYear.log, but the caveat is that it needs to ...