How can I automate the process of having a software execute over a hundred files as batch files?

You can use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to automate the task of operating on all the files. here are the cmdlets you can use: Get-Childitem cmdlet:                                  this cmdlet list all the files in given directory. $a=Get-ChildItem -File <directory_name> #this will put all the files in given directory in $a. #$a is an array of all the files. you can operate on #the array in loop #$a.Count Will return number of files. #here is the simple loop which prints the name of files for($i=0;$i -lt $a.count; $i++) { $a[$i].Name } Get-Content: List Names in a Text File. The only purpose of this script is to list the contents of a file line-by-line. # PowerShell script to list each line of a file $File = "E:\PowerShell\Loops\NetworkMachines.txt" Get-Content $File | ForEach-Object { $_ } Let's combine both the scripts. For a given directory we will print the contents of all the files. $a=Get-ChildItem -File <directory_name> for($i=0;$i -lt $a.count; $i++) { $a[$i].Name Get-Content $a[$i].Name | ForEach-Object { $_ } } You can even do lots of string parsing the PowerShell. I would recommend start using reading PowerShell. It is most powerful way to administrator Windows machine.

PowerShell, the automation environment for Windows is the recommended approach. You can also automate whole operating system management tasks in powershell. http://ss64.com/ps/ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd742419.aspx

Bash is ultimately the best solution, but if you want the quick-and-dirty here, just write a batch file that runs all the other batch files.