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batch file
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batch file

(1) A file containing data that is processed or transmitted from beginning to end.

(2) A file containing instructions that are executed one after the other from beginning to end. See BAT file and shell script.

(operating system)batch file - (Or script) A text file containing operating system commands which are executed automatically by the command-line interpreter. In Unix, this is called a "shell script" since it is the Unix shell which includes the command-line interpreter. Batch files can be used as a simple way to combine existing commands into new commands.

autoexec.bat is the best known example of an MS-DOS batch file.


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