Windows Macro Recorder - HELP

Question

Hello all.  I am of the vintage when i upgraded from a pc to an xt i thought i was king kong.  (1984/85).  Back then I would create a batch file to automate steps and it was all too easy.  Move forward to 2018 and I am bamboozled trying to do the same.  I simply want to move to a directory (manually) then create 3 additional directories and name them within the one I am in.  Can someone please suggest a simple App that will do this.  Thankyou

Answer 1

Thanks very much.  What you call the 'console' commands I think are what I would call DOS commands.  I remember quite a few but certainly not 20 as I have never ever used them in 30 odd years.  I guess my question is...is the batch file option the best to do what I want or are there better applications?.  I am certain there are because 30 years in IT is 'forever'.  i guess this is now my only question mate.  and if the batch file is the go, how can I refresh my knowledge of the DOS commands?

cheers

Answer 2

Thanks very much.  What you call the 'console' commands I think are what I would call DOS commands. I guess my question is...is the batch file option the best to do what I want or are there better applications?.  I am certain there are because 30 years in IT is 'forever'.  i guess this is now my only question mate.  and if the batch file is the go, how can I refresh my knowledge of the DOS commands?

cheers

DOS is an operating system that died with in about 2001 with Windows ME. Under all current versions of Windows there is no DOS but if you prefer to refer to console commands as "DOS commands" then so be it.

For simple scripts, console commands are easiest to use. To see their syntax, open a console screen with cmd.exe, then use either of these two commands, e.g. to get help with xcopy.exe:

xcopy /?  | more

xcopy /y > xcopy.txt (followed by notepad xcopy.txt)

For more complex tasks you would need to use CScript or PowerShell.