Command Prompts Question

[AlexGraal]

I know that this is a Java Forum, but I was hoping that somebody here could direct me toward the right resource.

I'm working on a couple of different things in a couple of different languages. It'd be really handy if I could define a function for my command prompt to open this, this, and that when I type "java" or something else, something else, and that when I type "python" or "octave" or "html" or etc.

Does anybody know how I can go about doing this?

[Norm]

Use a script or batch file.

[gimbal2]

This has to be the most vague problem description this week. "to open this, this and that" - what!?

[JosAH]

As Norm already wrote: use a shell and a script or even a dedicated scripting language (you seem familiar with Python but Java like scripting languages also exist (e.g. BeanShell)).

kind regards,

Jos

[AlexGraal]

Thanks Norm and JosAH.

@Gimbal - Obviously, what is being opened doesn't matter. Which is why I used this this and that. I was simply asking for the language to do this with. I thought that was obvious. I guess not.