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Batch jobs are set up so they can be run to completion without human interaction, so all input data is preselected through scripts or commandline parameters. This is in contrast to interactive programs which prompt the user for such input. This article or section should be merged with script programming language In computer applications, a script, roughly speaking, is a computer program that automates the sort of task that a user might otherwise do interactively at the keyboard. ... In computer command line interfaces, a command-line argument is an argument sent to a program being called. ...

Batch processing has these benefits:

• It allows sharing of computer resources among many users
• It shifts the time of job processing to when the computing resources are less busy
• It avoids idling the computing resources without minute-by-minute human interaction and supervision
• It is used on expensive classes of computers to help amortize the cost by keeping high rates of utilization of those expensive resources.

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Batch processing has grown beyond its mainframe origins, and is now frequently used in UNIX environments, where the cron and at facilities allow for scheduling of complex job scripts. Similarly, Microsoft DOS and Windows systems refer to their command-scripting language as batch files and Windows has a job scheduler. Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... The correct title of this article is . ... The at command is used to schedule commands to be executed once at a particular time in the future. ... Instructions on how to use the directory command. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to Windows commands In MS-DOS, OS/2 and Windows, a batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter. ...

A popular computerized batch processing procedure is printing. This normally involves the operator selecting the documents they need printed and indicating to the batch printing software when and where they should be output.

See also

• CA Unicenter Autosys Job Management