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Peter F

Hi All,

Wondered if anyone could help.

I am about to start training on a project and was after a list of help ful
commands for windows and DOS. I did not want to re-invent the wheel so to
speak hoping that some kind sole would point me in the right direction of how
i can get a list of the most common Windows and DOS commands e.g. ping
1.1.1.1, pathping, diskmgmt.msc etc, etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards.
 
Peter said:
Hi All,

Wondered if anyone could help.

I am about to start training on a project and was after a list of help ful
commands for windows and DOS. I did not want to re-invent the wheel so to
speak hoping that some kind sole would point me in the right direction of
how i can get a list of the most common Windows and DOS commands e.g. ping
1.1.1.1, pathping, diskmgmt.msc etc, etc.
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There is no DOS in Windows XP. There is a command prompt (cmd.exe). Google
is great for questions like this.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=command+line+XP&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

The very first link is an alphabetical listing of XP commands.

Malke
 
Peter F said:
Hi All,

Wondered if anyone could help.

I am about to start training on a project and was after a list of help ful
commands for windows and DOS. I did not want to re-invent the wheel so to
speak hoping that some kind sole would point me in the right direction of how
i can get a list of the most common Windows and DOS commands e.g. ping
1.1.1.1, pathping, diskmgmt.msc etc, etc.
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The first step is to open a command window and type "help" (no quote
marks, of course.

That will get you a list of commands and brief descriptions. For more
information about one of those, type the command name followed by /?

Doing a Google search on "windows command line commands" will turn up
a pile of sites that will tell you about those and other commands. Top
of the list for me was "http://www.ss64.com/nt/", which seems at a
glance to be pretty useful.
 
This isn't a complete list but here are a couple of the ones atleast that I
find used to get you started:
IPCONFIG (displays your tcp/ip configuration)
I would have to say I have used this command more than any other.
If you type ipconfig /? you will get a description of the command and how to
use it.
Also:
PING (checks to see if a host is reachable)
Another one that is used quite a bit. It comes in a too close to call
second with IPCONFIG for me. It's not very useful for WAN as echo request
are many times filtered out but used alot in LANs.

NET USE- used to connect (or disconnect) to network resources. If used by
itself you can view the current connections.

Obviously there are others but these are three that I immediately thought
of.
 
Hi Malke, Tim and, Dan,

Thanks very much for you comments i will take them all on board and curt and
paste the most common commands used today.

Kind Regards.
 
Peter said:
Hi Malke, Tim and, Dan,

Thanks very much for you comments i will take them all on board and curt and
paste the most common commands used today.

Kind Regards.
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I would like to add FDISK, DIR, Echo, Pause, DEL, REN and CD

Jim
 
I'll add a few more I've used in the not too distant past.
FORMAT
COPY
CHKDSK is one I use, just used it today as a matter of fact.
 
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