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Running simple commands

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- [Instructor] So let's look at running some simple commands. So this time around, I'm just going to use the standard Visual Studio Code and of course the terminal at the bottom here. Now if we take this first option here, there's a few things that we can do. The first one here is we can declare a variable with a specific location. So I'm going to say C:\Temp. I can right click here and say run selection, and this will execute that command there in the bottom. I can also then say, well, let's write out the output here, and it will say, initialize the log file. That was the message that we had. And then of course I can also use new item right here and say run selection, and that will actually create that new one for us. So you can see just some basic functions, like a variable with some text values, a write output, and then we can utilize new item. We can also use clear screen at any point. Now I'll just scroll down a little bit further here. We could also create a function. So this…

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