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Command Line Tricks

Because I'm a closet Unix-o-sexual!!

Posted on 6/30/2006 @ 8:51 PM in #Vanilla .NET | 5 comments | 24880 views

I am a self confessed Command Line Junkie. Here are a few tricks I use commonly that I can think off the top of my head.

1. Find a file on your hard disk - (This beats the Search doggie in Windows)
      dir filename /s

2. Find a file on your hard disk without all the directory info goo -
      dir filename /s/b

3. Create a list of files, say your MP3s to share with a friend? (disclaimer: don't do this piracy crap)
    dir *.mp3 /b > filelist.txt

3. Find a directory -
      dir dirname /s /ad

4. Move between directories easily
     C:\Documents and Settings\Sahil Malik>pushd .
     C:\Documents and Settings\Sahil Malik>cd \
     C:\>popd
     C:\Documents and Settings\Sahil Malik>

5. A better prompt for PushD and PopD via Craig Andrea.

6. Hit Tab for directory/filename compleition

7. Press F7 for a previous command list. User Cursor keys to select the command you need.

8. View all environment variables
SET

9. View only system variables that start with W
Set W

10. View a particular env. variable
ECHO %WINDIR%

11. Find what process has opened what port
netstat -noa

12. Widen your command prompt.
mode 120,100

13. View your TCP/IP settings.
netsh interface ip show config

14. Weird looking colors
color 8f

15. Find a string in a list of files, for example "Foo" in all .cs files in your project tree:
findstr /i /s "foo" *.cs

(You might know that the windows search doggie does an awful job at search thru files, I think it just ignores files with recognized extensions, so .cs will be ignored YUK).

16. refresh the netbios nametables:
nbtstat -R


On 8/5/2006 11:13:59 AM SRK said ..
Very useful mate !

On 11/21/2006 2:59:17 PM Mike P said ..
In another discussion at the site , you made the following comment: p{color:black;} I am a self confessed Command Line Junkie. Here are a few tricks I use commonly that I can think off the top of my head. 1. Find a file on your hard disk - (This beats the Search doggie in ... Can you tell me what you mean by "p{color:black;}"? I'd really like to have a different color for my prompt (and only the prompt), but I haven't been able to figure it out. I'm wondering if this might be a solution, although I'm not clear on how/where to insert that syntax. Thanks, Mike

On 11/21/2006 3:00:16 PM Mike P said ..
I forgot to add the link to the other discussion. Here it is:
http://pluralsight.com/blogs/craig/archive/2005/01/12/4923.aspx

On 11/22/2006 1:46:12 PM Sahil Malik said ..
Mike - I'm not sure if I understand your Q.

On 5/12/2008 11:30:38 AM Tikoro said ..
Mike: the p{color:black} was a piece of CSS that was not put in the right place to be interpreted by your browser. It is not DOS syntax..it is used to styling the output display of a webpage.

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