There is also the EDLIN command. While it may be an old bastard tool once used for line-based text editing, the fact that it's controllable from the command line makes it rather useful for batch scripting, mostly because, just like any other case you'd be using EDLIN, it's the only tool available. After all, EDLIN is not a tool you would ordinarily want to use for text editing, unless you are somewhat masochistic. To quote Tim Patterson (the fellow who wrote it): "I was aghast when I heard that IBM was using it and not throwing it out the window."

注意:EDLIN将老式的EOF (1A)标记添加到它编辑的文件中。如果需要删除它们，可能必须使用DEBUG。

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。

输出一个空行:

echo.

狡猾的等待N秒的技巧(不是cmd.exe的一部分，但不是额外的软件，因为它是Windows自带的)，参见ping行。您需要N+1个ping，因为第一个ping没有延迟。

    echo %time%
    call :waitfor 5
    echo %time%
    goto :eof
:waitfor
    setlocal
    set /a "t = %1 + 1"
    >nul ping 127.0.0.1 -n %t%
    endlocal
    goto :eof

对于具有数字计数器的循环(输出1到10):

for /l %i in (1,1,10) do echo %i

我发现你可以轻松地将命令输出重定向到文件中非常有用:

DIR *.txt > tmp.txt
DIR *.exe >> tmp.txt

单箭头创建或覆盖文件，双箭头追加文件。现在我可以在我的文本编辑器中打开tmp.txt，做各种各样的事情。