How to create a new text file in DOS with the end result allowing me to rename the file?

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Published on 2014-06-02T07:37:04Z Indexed on 2014/06/02 9:32 UTC
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I would like an exact duplicate of the following procedure on a Windows computer using mouse clicks: Right Click in a directory and choose New and then Text Document.

When one does this, the text file is created with a default name of New Text Document AND it is also highlighted so that I can type in my own file name.

I would like to do this in DOS. I don't care what file name is originally created. What I want is for the name of the file to automatically be highlighted / able to be renamed, so that I can rename it.

How can DOS execute / simulate a rename command / an F2 being pressed on the keyboard to a file that it has just created?

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