Batch Scripts are stored in simple text files containing lines with commands that get executed in sequence, one after the other. Scripting is a way by which one can alleviate this necessity by automating these command sequences in order to make one’s life at the shell easier and more productive. Note: The operator% must be written in a batch file as%% to be interpreted as operator. In a command prompt window executing the command line set /A Value=8% 3 assigns the value 2 to environment variable Value and additionally outputs 2. A batch file is a Windows file with the.bat extension. It's used as an input file for the command-line interpreter CMD to run a set of commands. This helps in automating things and reducing the. Cd command has not STDOUT.You probably need to append STDOUT of your batch file to a text file. Run your batch file from cmd: batchfile.bat 'C:UsersxasonDesktopLogslogs.txt' Or, inside your batch file. Since NT 4.REG files are in readable ASCII, they may be created 'on the fly' by our batch files. This is demonstrated in the DefOpen example in the Examples section. Removing registry entries. To remove an entire 'tree' from the registry using REGEDIT and a.REG file, just add a minus sign before the tree name: REGEDIT4 -HKEYCURRENTUSER.
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Adding to the registry is done via the REG ADD command. Note that in order to add values to the registry you need to have sufficient privileges on the system to perform this operation.
Syntax
The REG ADD command has the following variations. In the second variation, no name is specified for the key and it will add the name of “(Default)” for the key.
Where
ValueName − The value, under the selected RegKey, to edit.
/d Data − The actual data to store as a 'String', integer, etc.
/f − Force an update without prompting 'Value exists, overwrite Y/N'.
/S Separator − Character to use as the separator in REG_MULTI_SZ values. The default is '0'.
/t DataType − These are the data types defined as per the registry standards which can be −
REG_SZ (default)
REG_DWORD
REG_EXPAND_SZ
REG_MULTI_SZ
Example
In the above example, the first part is to add a key into the registry under the location HKEY_CURRENT_USERConsole. This key will have a name of Test and the value assigned to the key will be Test Data which will be of the default string type.
The second command just displays what was added to the registry by using the REG QUERY command.
Output
Following will be the output of the above program. The first line of the output shows that the ‘Add’ functionality was successful and the second output shows the inserted value into the registry.
What Is A Batch File And Batch Job? - Computer Hope
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In an Active Directory 2008 environment, you can do this but sometimes it doesn't work out quite the way you expected it to, especially with Windows XP. That's why sometimes it's jsut easier to setup a batch file to quickly and easily setup a mapped network drive for any users of a particular workstation.
2 Steps total
Step 1: Open Notepad
The command NET USE allows you to setup a mapped network drive and follows this syntax:
net use
You substitute the variables with your drive information:
net use F: serverfiles
And voila, there's your basic script.
Save the notepad file as .bat
Step 2: Add switches to your script
You can add switches to your script for different options, such as:
/delete - to delete a mapped drive /persistent:yes/no - to reconnect the drive upon login
I personally leave it the way it is and just add one more line:
Windows Batch File Open
del .bat
This way, I drop it in a user's startup folder and it will run once and that's it.
That's all
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This simple way has saved me lots of trouble from mapping different drives on different user logins.
Published: Aug 18, 2010 · Last Updated: Oct 12, 2017
8 Comments
Chipotle
Andrew Wiggin Aug 18, 2010 at 05:14pm
We recently switched to using GPO preferences for drive mapping on log in. They give you the ability to use shorter - friendlier names and can be set such that laptops out of the office don't try to access network shares. The transition for us was seamless.
GPO Preferences must be set up on a win2k8 server.
Cayenne
Tihomir Vlahovski Aug 19, 2010 at 06:00am
This should be named 'How to create batch file to map a drive'. More or less this is going to work in case every user have to be mapped to same place, but it should be rewrited in case you want mapped folder based on user login %USERNAME%. And at the end - startup - it was in the past - now should be GPO.
Cheers, -Tiho
Jalapeno
GeekAlex28 Aug 19, 2010 at 09:42am
I understand all that. The reason I wrote this is because we use AD to manage users and tried the network drive mapping through Active Directory 2k8 server, but there's still some WinXP computers on the network that always have trouble mapping the drive with that setting on. So I decided it would be easier to just make a batch file to fix that quick and simple, for every user that logs into that PC. On our network, we use general drive maps for everyone, no user specific ones, so it helps our case.
Anaheim
Drake5555 Mar 5, 2015 at 02:21pm
net use domain.local password /USER:domain.localusename
@echo Create new L: drive mapping @net use K: domain.localDirect Folder/persistent:yes @echo Create new K: drive mapping @net use K: domain.localDirect Folder /persistent:yes :exit @pause
Anaheim
Drake5555 Mar 5, 2015 at 02:23pm
It should looks something like this if you are joined to the Domain:
@echo Create new L: drive mapping @net use L: network path /persistent:yes @echo Create new K: drive mapping @net use K: network path /persistent:yes :exit @pause
Jalapeno
herdarkmaterials Mar 20, 2015 at 06:58pm
Thanks, this was a quick find, I needed to make sure I was doing it correctly, but it would be better if you specified that it will be persistent by default!
Jalapeno
therodfather May 23, 2019 at 07:03am
Ah excellent. I needed this for mapping a computer to the server at the dentists office. Thanks!
Pimiento
CSAKTE Jun 18, 2019 at 09:43am
Hello but how to put into script that it gets password