Batch scripts are stored in simple text files containing lines with commands that get executed in sequence, one after the other. So in this series of tutorials, we will learn about batch file programming and how we can execute command line instructions with a single click through them. Lets create a simple batch script to display this is my first script. And it feels like art, where one can learn to do increasingly complex tasks with greater.
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