Basic Help with XP Command-line utilities

I stated at the time that I didn't want to get too far into this but here I am anyway.

I'd be a liar if I said I hadn't at least wondered about scripts.

Ha!  ha!  ha!  ha! 

Hook line and sinker here.  1,750,000 Google hits.  And that's just batch scripting, add another zillion for VB scripting, awk gawk etc...

Thanks, Dusty.  That ought to keep me busy for awhile.