Reinventing the whe...

[Guest 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.

--

Flinty

[Guest Malke]

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

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[Guest Tim Slattery]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Re: Reinventing the whe...

 

I'll add a few more I've used in the not too distant past.

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CHKDSK is one I use, just used it today as a matter of fact.

 

 

"Jim Dell" <James.Dell@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

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> 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