Shell Scripts on the PC
This began as a project to write a set of essays for use by my
co-workers as an aid to understanding the DOS batch programs I wrote
for user account and machine management, and for numerous one-off
programs to solve problems and provide unusual services. It got out of
hand. Win95, with its brain-dead batch language, came along - then NT
and its very different batch language - then DOS started
going away and Linux appeared on the scene.
It appeared to me that the best way to continue the work was to make
the original essays into one volume of a multi-volume work covering all
of the environments I use in separate sets of essays. This is the
master wrapper page and introduction for that grand scheme. I don't
expect it ever to be complete - the operating environments come and go
faster than I can master their shell script languages. If the links are
not active, I haven't actually written anything on that topic yet.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Shell Scripts
- DOS Batch Language: A Personal View
- Win9x Batch Language: Scripts for a Brain-Dead Language
- NT4 Scripting: A Usable Batch
Language at Last
- Scripts for Multiple MS environments:
Using Additional Languages
- Linux Bash Scripts: The World is my Oyster
- Canned Responses to Certain Batch
FAQs
- Character codes in decimal, hex,
and octal
- Frank Westlake's
Freeware NT Utilities (Mirror of discontinued original site)
"Microsoft may love you very much, but with Windows you still have to
go eat worms." - Nicholas Petreley in InfoWorld 5/19/00.