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  • D Dalek Dave

    Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

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    Slacker007
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    Dalek Dave wrote:

    Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files?

    I do from time to time. Some things, never die.

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    • D Dalek Dave

      Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

      --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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      BobJanova
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      I generally only use them for trivial things, otherwise I'll write a short command line C# tool. I like the security of using a real language, and the .Net Framework's always in memory on my machine anyway so execution time is trivial.

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      • D Dalek Dave

        Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

        --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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        krumia
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        We do, for automating lots of things. Setting up development environments, client installations/deployments. That old bats will not die for a while.

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        • D Dalek Dave

          Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

          --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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          Lost User
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          I usually prefer using .bat files to do repetitive and trivial things. Btw, shouldn't this post be titled "Scripting question"?

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          • D Dalek Dave

            Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

            --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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            EbenY42
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            All the time ... started calling them .cmd a couple of year ago :-D

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            • D Dalek Dave

              Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

              --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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              Corporal Agarn
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              I write them on occasion. Then again I too am an "old fogy". :)

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              • D Dalek Dave

                Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                leppie
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                Dalek Dave wrote:

                Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files?

                I do, but only basic stuff :)

                IronScheme
                ((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))

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                • L Lost User

                  I usually prefer using .bat files to do repetitive and trivial things. Btw, shouldn't this post be titled "Scripting question"?

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                  Dalek Dave
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                  You make a good point!

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                    Dalek Dave wrote:

                    Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files?

                    I do, but only basic stuff :)

                    IronScheme
                    ((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))

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                    Dalek Dave
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                    DOS stuff, not Basic stuff surely :)

                    --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                    • D Dalek Dave

                      Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                      --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                      Joan M
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                      I'm BATman! :rolleyes: I still do it DD! and they work nice... truly I've always found it confusing to fiddle with vbs...

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                      • D Dalek Dave

                        Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                        --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                        GuyThiebaut
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                        I use them for moving a large number of files when working on version control...

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                        ― Christopher Hitchens

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                        • L Lost User

                          What's odd about them?

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                          Pete OHanlon
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                          I discard the even ones.

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                            Right: we young people just write a bunch of shell scripts or awk ones.

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                            Pete OHanlon
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                            Heck, I was writing Unix scripts before you were born.

                            *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                            "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

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                              I have been known to write the odd .bat file, as well as PowerShell scripts.

                              *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                              "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                              My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                              Eytukan
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                              Though I'm supposed to forget .bats long before, I continue to stay in touch with them, at least to brag I'm a legendary coder. I've observed it many times, people who write .bat files are looked up as smart coders And the one that writes a little command prompt .exe in C++ or .net look dumb :-D Anyway I write the basic scripts, but when it gets complex, I ring up the old dino Gary :)

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                                Heck, I was writing Unix scripts before you were born.

                                *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                                "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

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                                Dalek Dave
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                                It's a shame Henry isn't here He could tell us of his days poking holes in cards!

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                                • D Dalek Dave

                                  Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                                  --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                                  Jochen Arndt
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                                  I do so occasionally using GNU utilities for Windows (UnxUtils).

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                                  • D Dalek Dave

                                    Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                                    --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                                    Alberto Bar Noy
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                                    I call them .cmd files but I use them a lot.

                                    Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)

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                                    • D Dalek Dave

                                      Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                                      --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                                      PIEBALDconsult
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                                      Indubitably. And I still spend most of my day in a DOS box.

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                                      • D Dalek Dave

                                        Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                                        --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                                        hairy_hats
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                                        Not for a good long while, anything more than a directory listing and I write a program.

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                                        • D Dalek Dave

                                          Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files? Are they common or am I one of the old fogies that still employs his DOS knowledge?

                                          --------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] English League Tables - Live

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                                          David Crow
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                                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                                          Who (apart from my good self) still writes .bat files?

                                          I do. In some ways, they can't be beat.

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