Using Notepad

Most students who have attended one of my classes on the command prompt, batch files, or PowerShell have heard me say this: “The difference between a good administrator and a great administrator is that great administrators have learned to script.”

You don’t even have to be a great scripter, but when you can automate some of your tasks, you can do much more than the good administrator who does tasks manually. You can start scripting by creating basic batch files in Notepad. One of the great things about the command prompt is that anything you can execute at the command prompt, you can embed as a script in a batch file, and anything you can script, you can automate.