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March 15, 2004 Rem: Learning About Windows Shell Scripting A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Bob Wells Rem InstantDoc #41830 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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Can you recommend any good books about shell scripting in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000? I'm primarily interested in a book about the command processor (cmd.exe) and batch files.

Tim Hill's Windows NT Shell Scripting (Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1998) is my favorite. This book is one of the few, if not the only, Windows shell-scripting book tha . . .

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