If the
batch file is small and simple enough, either of these environments may be all that you need.
Most batch files and scripts aren??™t small, however, so most people use an editor of some kind.
In fact, Notepad is one of the more popular options. You can even use Notepad within Server Core,
but it??™s likely that you??™ll edit complex batch files and scripts at the client system and transfer them
to Server Core. Of course, you can find more powerful editors than Notepad and this chapter
examines a few of those choices. The chapter assumes that you??™ll perform any editing tasks at the
client system. (If you do plan to work at Server Core, then your choices may only include the Copy
CON method, the Edit utility, and Notepad.) The point is that you should use the editor that feels
comfortable to you and achieves any task that you want to complete. You don??™t need the IDE of a
full-fledged programming language to complete most tasks at the command line.
Nothing says that you must do anything more than write the lines of instructions to create a perfectly
usable solution. In fact, for many years, this is all that people did. They wrote their batch files
and used them as is.
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