Batch files are one of the simplest yet most powerful ways to automate repetitive tasks on Windows. From cleaning temp files to launching multiple apps at once, they can save hours of manual work.

So I'm creating a batch file that is appending output into another batch file from a few different commands. But when I do this a line break, carriage return is placed in the file creating a problem ...

Say I had a script to take on-line backups of a database (in my case Citrix data store in Access format) and I wanted to script the renaming of the file to include the current date (and possibly ...