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MacDowall Niklas J. MacDowall 13 13 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. The website is up for sale now I've updated the URL. No way that would work in DOS. So he uses cmd, actually which is still a very sane choice even if cumbersome , since it's the only thing that works on every Windows except WSH, but that can be locked down with group policies.

Vilx- Vilx- k 84 84 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. See stackoverflow. I didn't give you that downvote. But I think it's because this is more like a comment than an answer.

Derek - Oh, ok then. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. After the tutorial where we created batch to zip files , this is another useful tutorial for your daily jobs. You will need to delete those files manually every day and this is not good practice.

On the other hand, you can create a script to delete the file automatically. All of that without installing any third-party software. In fact, this example will show steps for creating a batch file and you can use Task Scheduler to run.

What is the current directory in a batch file? How to capture cURL output to a file? How can you find and replace text in a file using the Windows command-line environment? How to get the path of the batch script in Windows? How do I make a batch file terminate upon encountering an error? This command allows you to integrate conditions within batch files, similar to JavaScript for example. All commands coming after REM or :: are considered as comments by the console.

This command allows you to go directly to a specific location in a batch file. The executed batch file is stopped and the console displays the message Press any key to continue….

This command allows you to call a batch file from another batch file. Example: The following example call SecondScript. This command allows you to read and delete variables in the command prompt.

This command allows you to change the title of the command prompt window. This command allows you to start some programs or some commands. Example: The following example will start two programs called Notepad and Calculator.

This command allows you to closes the session, restarts the computer, or shuts it down. Example: The following example will shut down your computer in 60 seconds. This command allows you to search for one or more files by using character input. This command allows you to display data page by page on the screen.