Reddit mentions of Microsoft® Windows® Command-Line Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Pro - Administrator's PC)

Upvotes to the mentions of Powershell - it is really powerful and excellent to use.

However - good'ol DOS and batch files fuel some of my top functions at work. Here are some links that might help:

• SS64
  
• Rob VanDerWoude's Batch Pages
  
• Good thread at Stack overflow
  
• Know your environment variables
  
  And my general go-to books are:
  
  
• Windows Command-Line
  
• Windows Admin Scripting
  
• Windows Administration at the Command Line
  
  A lot of this is/was used for Windows XP - but a good amount of it will translate to Windows 7. Batch / DOS is still fun to use in Windows 7 but definitely also play a bit in the Powershell pool.