How To Manage Windows Apps From The Command Line
If you are looking to manage applications from the command line in Windows, then Winget is the right tool for you. It can let you install, uninstall, upgrade and search for different apps using Windows PowerShell. It is a command-line client interface to the Windows Package Manager Service and is easy to use.
Linux command-line fans will feel right at home when using Winget to install, upgrade and...
Quickly Create And Delete Directories Using Windows Command Prompt
At times, it can be quicker to make and remove directories directly from the Windows command prompt.
Here is how to do it :
1. Open Windows command prompt and to create a directory (named “testing” in this example), type :
mkdir testing
2. Check it out by changing to this newly created directory :
cd testing
3. To remove this empty directory, simply type :
rd testing
If the directory contains...
How To Quickly Search For A File From Command Prompt In Windows
Here’s how to quickly search for a file from command prompt in Windows:
1. Issue the following command at the command prompt –
dir <drive letter>\ /s /b | find “<file name to be searched>”
In our case, we wanted to search for a file named ‘mdi.chm’ in C: drive, hence we issued the following command –
dir C:\ /s /b | find “mdi.chm”
As...