The IFX Group Batch File Collection
Batch files are the most powerful and possibly the least understood abilities of the DOS and Windows command line interface. This is a hint at the lost art of scripting a few lines of text to do things most people believe requires an expensive programming language. Even if you have no need for the functions of the following files, these can serve as reference material in building your own batch files.
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 | Download: Size: Updated: | asort.bat 1,262 bytes October 28, 2004 |
A tool to group a large number of files
into alphabetical subdirectories by file name. This will create 36
subdirectories with single character names using the letters A
through Z and the numbers 0 through 9 to hold the files. Files that
start with characters that don't match the letters or numbers will
be sorted by the second character of the file name. This allows
files like (Sample).JPG to be placed into the S
directory. This batch file uses recursive calling to perform the
file location and moving on each of the file names.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | cdup.bat 1,355 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A DOS/Windows 9x batch file to
change to a parent directory similar to the command line FTP
command by the same name. This has been extended to allow changing
to sibling directories contained in parent directories. This is
still a work in progress and currently fails to detect empty
directories.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | clean.bat 8,848 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A Windows 9x batch file to gather
interesting files and erase all others. This started out as
a simple tool to collect audio files from news reader output and
grew into a program with the ability to call decompression programs
when needed, detect if new files are arriving and loop until they
are completed. This demonstrates recursive batch file calling and
user input with timeout.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | editmail.bat 4,687 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A DOS or Windows batch file to
copy an IPAD Mail authority file to the local drive for editing. If
changes are made the new file is posted back to the IPAD mail
server. This batch file keeps 20 backup copies of the mail
authority file, but only if edits happen. Editing needs an external
program (e.g. Qedit) to function. Read the remarks at the top of
the batch file.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | mavica.bat 1,159 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A Windows 9x batch file to move
contents of a Sony Mavica digital camera disk to the hard drive of
your computer. This demonstrates use of the CHOICE command for user
input.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | unmap.bat 547 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A batch file to release all
mapped network drive connections using drive letters. This
demonstrates the FOR command to loop through a list and perform the
same command.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | xfdisk.zip 1,554 bytes December 02, 2005 |
This batch file uses a
short script passed to DEBUG.EXE to totally remove all partitions
on your hard disk along with all of the data contained in those
partitions in less than a second. This is a very destructive tool
and will cause loss of data. If you have a disk with partitions
that Microsoft FDISK is not able to remove, this is the quickest
way to zap them and get a clean disk. This batch file is designed
to be run from a drive (floppy disk, CD or USB device) that is not
the disk you want to erase. WARNING! USING THIS BATCH FILE WILL
CAUSE LOSS OF DATA!
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