batch file

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batch file - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  batch file
  
     <operating system> (Or script) A text file containing
     operating system commands which are executed automatically
     by the command-line interpreter.  In Unix, this is called
     a "shell script" since it is the Unix shell which includes
     the command-line interpreter.  Batch files can be used as a
     simple way to combine existing commands into new commands.
  
     autoexec.bat is the best known example of an MS-DOS batch
     file.
  
     (1996-01-07)