Operating Systems 1 Lab 4 – DOS Batch File Creation

The first two steps involve creating two .txt files, ReallyImportantProgram1.txt and ReallyImportantProgram2.txt

The contents of the files is not relevant to the exercise.

The third step involves creating a .bat file. A batch file is a script file which contains commands to be executed by the command line interpreter. In our exercise, we used it to create a directory called BackupFolder and in that folder we stored our two text files.

The command copy ReallyImportant*.txt BackupFolder is the one copying the files into the folder. The * tells the interpreter to copy any files with numerals after ReallyImportant, hence why both files are copied.