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 ...

As mentioned earlier, a batch file contains a series of DOS commands and are used to automate the frequently performed tasks. Thus, you don’t have to repeatedly write the same commands. Remember the ...

I'm working on a batch file that prompt the user for a username and password then supplies those values to a series of commands. How can I get DOS to mask the password so that it doesn't appear in ...

Okay, so I'm used to .bat files under DOS, but how would you write batch files that run several commands under the Linux shell? is there a specific extension that I have to use or what?<P>Thank you!

Most of us are familiar with the Command Prompt and its basic commands. We usually execute a set of commands to complete a task or obtain some information. But this can also be done with the help of a ...