Real Administrators Use Batch Fiyles
At one time, I thought I held the title for the number of batch files used for daily activities. That??™s until
I ran into one network administrator who had more batch files than I??™d ever seen before. He had batch
files for every occasion. In fact, one of the batch files was simply there to track all of the other batch files
(so he didn??™t reinvent the wheel at some point). The entire collection required two CDs, a considerable
amount of space when you consider that many of the batch files in this book are less than 1 KB in size.
Of course, he didn??™t build this huge source of batch files in a day. In fact, he had been building and refining
them over a period of years. This administrator customized many of the batch files to his way of
working with systems and the network as a whole. In fact, that??™s the point of batch files. You can do
things your way. Because batch files are simplicity itself, you can add, remove, and rebuild them as
needed.
However, batch files are important for administrators for another reason. The examples in this book
demonstrate that batch files can be quite powerful. Yet, the time required to develop a batch file is short
and you don??™t need to become a programmer to use one.
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