(abbreviation for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system created by Microsoft. It was based on the Intel 8086 family of microprocessors but you can run the
_prompter on every operation system, even on Vista. The reason for using
commands is to get quickly into the desired program or to make changes on hard disks (copy, move, rename, delete, etc directories and files) in a very short time.
There are tons of
commands most of them, unnecessarily. Here a list of common used
commands:
- you get inside the prompter console (START / run / type
)
For all of these commands to get working you need all the time to get into the directory (cd dir_name) where do you want to make necessarily changes (moving, deleting, renaming, etc)
- list all dir
- get help
- rename get help
- make new dir help
- split the entire content of the directory in multiple screens / pages
- split the entire content of the directory in multiple pages
- get help
dir_name or
dir_name - get to the desired dir
windows [with space after cd] instead of
dir_name - get to the desired dir
- up one level
- get back to root of dir
C: - get into C:/ partition
A:
DIR_NAME or
DIR_NAME to make a new directory
FILE_NAME to make a new file
DIR_NAME or
DIR_NAME - RD = Removing Directory (delete)
FILE_NAME - removing file (delete)
DIR_NAME or RD /S FILE_NAME to delete dir with files and subdir
“
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to run a program: cmd - PHOTOSHOP or any program I need…
FILE_x.TXT FILE_xy.TXT or
FILE_x.TXT FILE_xy.TXT
REN FILE_x.txt TICKS AND TRIPS IN COMPUTERS WORLD.TXT - not working
- DONE!
FILENAME.TXT to see de attribute (value) of a file
FILENAME.TXT add R (read only) attribute
FILENAME.TXT remove R (read only) attribute
FILENAME.TXT
add read only attribute for all mp3 files of the dir
attributes could be: A (archive), R, H (hidden), S (system file)
- shows up all the files with txt extension
- shows up all the files that starts with “a”
DEL FILENAME.TXT OR ERASE FILENAME.TXT
DEL *.TXT - delete all the txt files
DEL *.* - delete all files in that dir
FILENAME.TXT and RN DIRNAME or RD FILENAME
- list the proprieties of your network (IP, MAC, DNS, etc)
watched movies - will copy sherk.avi file from D:\movies to E:\ watched movies
watched movies - will move sherk.avi file from D:\movies to E:\ watched movies
Suppose you have 150 mp3 files in E:\ disco music and you want to moves these files in D:\ all music.
Get your prompter in E:\ disco music (cd disco music) and type
Done!
- change the name during the copy process
- change the name and the extension of file during the moving process
- change the extension of all files during the moving process
- copy all files and directories from D:\all music to E:\recent music except the empty directories (because of /s)
- copy all files and directories from D:\all music to E:\recent music including the empty directories (because of /e)
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San Diego Real Estate @ 2:03 pm
What about FORMAT command?
admin @ 9:01 am
Oh yeah, I forgot two important commands:
FORMAT - FORMAT c: - to format disk c
FDISK - to make partitions on a disk
ByREV @ 8:11 pm
Cateva comezi dos “secrete”
getmac, bootcfg, driverquery, fsutil, gpresult, netsh, openfiles, recover, schtasks, systeminfo, tasklist, taskkill, “defrag drive: -b”
Nu prea le foloseste nimeni :) dar, asa ca sa fie !
BTW, cred ca’s valabile doar in consola pur MS-DOS (nu ca nu se mai foloseste :D)
admin @ 11:24 am
ByREV, there are some commands working but only one or two from the entire list you gave me.
George @ 11:02 am
And here's another one (not really a command) I recently discovered it works on windows - quick output to a file.
For example, if you want to create a list with all the files from the “Documents” directory just type in
'dir >> MyList.txt'
This will take the output of dir and write to the MyList.txt file. I didn't really know this works in Windows. I always had Cygwin installed :D
snowalker @ 3:06 pm
it sounds interesting. I never used that command before but for sure can be helpfully. Thanks! :)
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