By: Paul Harris
When using the command prompt, typing cd.. takes you back one directory. Typing cmd /? list lots of information. Typing /? after a command ….say defrag or chkdsk will list all the options. Be careful,...
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Enjoyed the article, brings back memories of my DOS days. I like using DEFRAG from the command prompt in Windows 7, as I miss the Visual progress indicators from earlier Versions of the OS.
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By: Lee
Another neat thing is that all of these can be put in shortcuts. Just make a new shortcut and set the location to: cmd.exe /k
View ArticleBy: Joe Golla
Great article, it comes in the wings of needing to PIPE a directory listing to a txt file and import to a spreadsheet for sorting. (dir > print.txt)
View ArticleBy: Sushil Kathpalia
some of them are known but file comparing, TREE,CIPHER and file associates unknown to me.. So i would try all these commands…
View ArticleBy: Rigoberto Garcia
Great article Ryan. We use some. Bat in our daily operations to automate some tasks (the latter was used. RoboCopy bat with a task of Windows). Share this information with my colleagues. Thank you very...
View ArticleBy: Scutterman
I think the visual indicators went due to increasing disk sizes. When you had 100MB disks, it didn’t take a large output to display the clusters, but when you have 500GB, or even 1-2TB, that’s a whole...
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I use the “ping” command to test network connectivity. I can usually use it to tell whether a site is being slow, or my connection, and if my connection has completely dropped out, ping will sometimes...
View ArticleBy: Sampath Widushan
Wow…nice post Ryan..this was very useful…and i didn’t thought that cmd was this much capable of doing handy work..thank you very much.
View ArticleBy: JayF
I never throw away my old DOS manuals, either in book form or digital. They DO come in handy when all else fails. I’ve forgotten how old my copy of “Mostly Windows with just enough DOS” is — but it...
View ArticleBy: Ryan Dube
Austin – I recently attempted to teach myself PowerShell and realized that the complexity would require too much of my time at the moment. With that said – it looks like an amazing/powerful scripting...
View ArticleBy: Ryan Dube
Definitely – there’s something to be said for the convenience of just popping open a command window and getting the job done, versus point and click-click-clicking…
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