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                              DOSKEY──Examples
 
The /MACROS and /HISTORY switches are useful for creating batch programs to
save macros and commands. For example, to create a batch program named
MACINIT.BAT that includes all Doskey macros, type the following command:
 
    doskey /macros > macinit.bat
 
To use the MACINIT.BAT file, edit it to include the DOSKEY command at the
beginning of each macro line.
 
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,
type the following:
 
    mc books
 
To create a macro that uses batch parameters for moving a file or group of
files, type the following command:
 
    doskey mv=copy $1 $2 $t del $1
 
To create a macro that causes the MEM command to pause after each screen,
type the following command:
 
    doskey mem=mem $* /p
 
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