It is always good to know some command line magic, as it is sometimes easier to process commands that way. This guide demonstrates the Forfiles command in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Forfiles can process files based on names, file extensions and age. It is for instance possible to find all documents in a directory [...]
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Nirsoft Command Line Tool
Nircmd is a impressive command line tool considering its size of just 29 Kilobytes. It can be used to launch an incredible amount of commands from the Windows command line or by utilizing the program from a batch file. The best option would be to copy it into a system path folder so that the [...]
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Console 2 a better cmd.exe
The Windows command line tool that can be accessed by typing cmd.exe in the run box has not been changed in a long time. It provides a basic functionality which mostly cannot be altered. It is for instance not possible to pick any other font than the two that can be selected. Console 2 tries [...]
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YubNub a social internet command line
The first time I saw the yubnub website I was thinking that no one would need this website at all but after some testing it became clear that it offers an easy way to access many services very fast without depending on bookmarks or links. If you do work with the command line in Windows or Linux you feel right at home, you enter a command and some parameters and yubnub does the rest.