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Understanding Batch Files

  What are batch files? Batch files are files based on series of commands which are interpreted Line-by-Line. This is very easy to understand and very good for beginners of programming languages. It consists of very simple English words and simple arithmetic operations.  Important Commands: @echo off      Hides unwanted data Title          Specifies Title  Mode x,y      Specifies Screen Size Echo          Used to prompt text Echo.          Used to skip a line Set /p variable=    Collects input Set /a variable=   // // // Can be manipulated Pause           Stops program until keypress and also displays "press any key to continue..."  Pause>nul        Stops program until keypress, displays no text Start             Starts any file Del      ...