If you’re a system administrator or someone who relies on batch files to automate tasks, you’ve probably encountered situations where things go wrong because a script gets changed while it’s running.

I've always been the batch file guy wherever I go. I had a .bat script for almost every situation: cleaning a folder, temporarily zipping files, and quick server checks. I could do so much with .bat ...

A .bat (batch) file consists of a series of commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter, stored in a plain text file. A batch file can be scheduled to run automatically or run silently in ...