How To Generate A List Of All Available Commands In Windows Command Prompt
The Windows command prompt has many useful commands that can do useful things.
To make a list of these commands for reference, open the command prompt (Windows key + R) and type :
cmd
Once at the command prompt, simply dump the contents of the “help” command to an external text file by typing :
help >> pathwherethefileistobekept\filename.txt
In this example, file named commandlist.txt...
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”
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