It is a project which is supposed to get us used to linux commands. Their is no GUI and just using commands to see what the outcomes are.
That's pretty funny.
So, a batch file is just a series of DOS commands structured in such a way as to perform a series of actions.
Correct.
A Bat file may be used by an IT department to connect to a series of drives for users on the network.
Granted the users could do this themselves but the bat file automates it and is pushed out to all users on the network.
This may be done to ensure the correct drives are loaded and to compensate for users who may be unaware of how to do this.
There's lots of uses for a batch file, mapping drives being one of them. I wasn't really asking a question here, more like explaining what a .bat file does and why it's sort of silly that one would be used for the purposes of emulating Linux.