Guest Peter F Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 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. -- Flinty
Guest Malke Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 Re: Reinventing the whe... Peter F wrote: > 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. 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 -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
Guest Tim Slattery Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 Re: Reinventing the whe... Peter F <PeterF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >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. 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. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(Shell/User) Slattery_T@bls.gov http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
Guest Dan H Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 Re: Reinventing the whe... 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. "Peter F" <PeterF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F5EEF988-3D19-402C-8E6B-3DCD1A04D779@microsoft.com... > 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. > -- > Flinty
Guest Peter F Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 RE: Reinventing the whe... 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. -- Flinty "Peter F" wrote: > 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. > -- > Flinty
Guest Jim Dell Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Reinventing the whe... Peter F wrote: > 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. > > I would like to add FDISK, DIR, Echo, Pause, DEL, REN and CD Jim
Guest Dan H Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Re: Reinventing the whe... 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. "Jim Dell" <James.Dell@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:XNnHk.2078$W06.1327@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com... > Peter F wrote: >> 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. >> >> > I would like to add FDISK, DIR, Echo, Pause, DEL, REN and CD > > Jim
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