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- SAMPLE BATCH file contents | Comments about the output
-
- In the first IF, notice how an
- undefined variable is detected.
- IF x%DEFAULT%==x SET DEFAULT=C: The contents of any disk drive
- BACKUP %DEFAULT%\ A: /S could be backed up, no matter what
- the current DOS disk drive was,
- and without having to remember the
- option to get subdirectories backed
- up.
-
- ECHO DELETING *.BAK FILES For each subdirectory listed in the
- FOR %%f IN (%PATH%) DO DEL %%f\*.BAK PATH variable, all files with an
- extension of .BAK would be deleted.
-
-
- IF %SCREEN% == MONO GOTO COLOR If the variable SCREEN is not
- IF %SCREEN% == COLOR GOTO MONO defined, neither IF condition
- :COLOR would be true, and SCREEN would
- SET SCREEN=COLOR be set to COLOR. Notice that there
- MODE CO80 are no spaces around '=' in SET.
- EXIT The EXIT would terminate processing
- :MONO of the BATCH file at this point.
- SET SCREEN=MONO The next time the BATCH file was
- MODE MONO executed, the second IF condition
- EXIT would be true, and SCREEN would be
- reSET to MONO.
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-
- IF x%RETURN%==x GOTO NEWSTART In a complicated BATCH file which
- IF %RETURN%==1 GOTO CONTINUE1 was executed several times, but
- IF %RETURN%==2 GOTO CONTINUE2 needed to remember that it had
- GOTO EEXXIITT previously done some processing, an
- :NEWSTART environment variable could be used
- SET RETURN=1 to control its execution. The first
- ...do some initialization processing... execution after a reboot of the
- GOTO EEXXIITT computer could do some initial
- :CONTINUE1 processing, and then every
- ...do some intermediate processing... subsequent execution would do some
- ...if appropriate, SET RETURN=2 repetitive processing, until it
- GOTO EEXXIITT decided that no repetitions were
- :CONTINUE2 necessary. Then it could do some
- SET RETURN= final processing (which might even
- ...do some termination processing... include forcing a reboot of the
- :EEXXIITT computer). Every time the BATCH file
- ...do some common processing... was executed, it could always do
- EXIT some common processing. The final
- EXIT statement is not required.