Doskey--Examples

The /macros and /history switches are useful for creating batch programs to save macros and commands. For example, to store all current Doskey macros, type the following command:

doskey /macros > macinit

To then use the macros stored in MACINIT, type

doskey /macrofile=macinit

To create a batch program named TMP.BAT that contains recently used commands, type the following command:

doskey /history > tmp.bat

To define a macro with multiple commands, use $t to separate commands, as follows:

doskey tx=cd temp$tdir/w $*

In the preceding example, the TX macro changes the current directory to TEMP and then displays a directory listing, using the wide display format. You can use $* at the end of the macro to append other switches to the dir command when you run TX.

The following macro uses a batch parameter for a new directory name. The macro first creates a new directory and then changes to it from the current directory.

doskey mc=md $1$tcd $1

To use the preceding macro to create and change to a directory named BOOKS, you type the following:

mc books

To create a Doskey macro for a specific program (in this case FTP.EXE) include the /exename switch.

doskey /exename:ftp.exe go=open 126.127.1.100$tmget *.TXT c:\reports$bye

To use the preceding macro, start ftp. At the ftp prompt type go. Ftp will execute the open, mget, and bye commands.

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