一个非常古老(大约1990年)的技巧来获得环境变量的总大小:

set > test
dir test
del test

抽取随机的文本行

@echo off

:: Get time (alas, it's only HH:MM xM

for /f %%a in ('time /t') do set zD1=%%a



:: Get last digit of MM

set zD2=%zD1:~4,1%



:: Seed the randomizer, if needed

if not defined zNUM1 set /a zNUM1=%zD2%


:: Get a kinda random number

set /a zNUM1=zNUM1 * 214013 + 2531011

set /a zNUM2=zNUM1 ^>^> 16 ^& 0x7fff


:: Pull off the first digit

:: (Last digit would be better, but it's late, and I'm tired)

set zIDX=%zNUM2:~0,1%


:: Map it down to 0-3

set /a zIDX=zIDX/3


:: Finally, we can set do some proper initialization

set /a zIIDX=0

set zLO=

set zLL=""


:: Step through each line in the file, looking for line zIDX

for /f "delims=@" %%a in (c:\lines.txt) do call :zoo  %zIDX%  %%a


:: If line zIDX wasn't found, we'll settle for zee LastLine

if "%zLO%"=="" set zLO=%zLL%

goto awdun


:: See if the current line is line zIDX

:zoo


:: Save string of all parms

set zALL=%*


:: Strip off the first parm (sure hope lines aren't longer than 254 chars)

set zWORDS=%zALL:~2,255%


:: Make this line zee LastLine

set zLL=%zWORDS%


:: If this is the line we're looking for, make it zee LineOut

if {%1}=={%zIIDX%} set zLO=%zWORDS%


:: Keep track of line numbers

set /a zIIDX=%zIIDX% + 1

goto :eof




:awdun

echo ==%zLO%==


:: Be socially responsible

set zALL=

set zD1=

set zD2=

set zIDX=

set zIIDX=

set zLL=

set zLO=

:: But don't mess with seed

::set zNUM1=

set zNUM2=

set zWORDS=

当向批处理文件传递未知数量的参数时，例如，当几个文件被拖放到批处理文件上以启动批处理文件时，您可以通过名称引用每个参数变量。

TYPE %1
TYPE %2
TYPE %3
TYPE %4
TYPE %5
...etc

但是当你想要检查每个参数是否存在时，这就变得非常混乱了:

if [%1] NEQ [] (
TYPE %1
)
if [%2] NEQ [] (
TYPE %2
)
if [%3] NEQ [] (
TYPE %3
)
if [%4] NEQ [] (
TYPE %4
)
if [%5] NEQ [] (
TYPE %5
)
...etc

此外，使用这种方法只能接受有限数量的参数。

相反，尝试使用SHIFT命令:

:loop
IF [%1] NEQ [] (
TYPE %1
) ELSE (
GOTO end
)
SHIFT
GOTO loop
:end

SHIFT将把所有参数都向下移动一个，因此%2变成%1，%3变成%2，等等。

使用&::的内联注释。

:: This is my batch file which does stuff.
copy thisstuff thatstuff  &:: We need to make a backup in case we screw up!

:: ... do lots of other stuff

这是如何工作的呢?这是一个丑陋的黑客。&是命令分隔符，大致近似于;UNIX shell。::是另一个丑陋的黑客，有点像REM语句。最终结果是执行命令，然后执行一个什么都不做的命令，从而近似于注释。

这并不是在所有情况下都有效，但它通常足够有用。

创建并开始编辑一个新文件

copy con new.txt
This is the contents of my file
^Z

Ctrl+Z发送ASCII EOF字符。这就像bash中的heredocs:

cat <<EOF > new.txt
This is the contents of my file
EOF

要从文件的第一行开始设置一个环境变量，我使用以下命令:

rem a.txt contains one line: abc123
set /p DATA=<a.txt
echo data: %DATA%

这将输出:abc123