I started watching the dot net show a while back, and I downloaded a few episodes particularly to look at the future of Windows as a platform. There was quite a bit of stuff about the likes of Avalon, ...

It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.

Microsoft has always taken it on the chin when it comes to command-line power. After all, Windows' strength is supposed to be its graphical user interface, not a bunch of cryptic command-line tools.

The Command Prompt is a no-nonsense command-line shell. You can use it to copy files, script logic, and even as a download manager. But it's never been on par with ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I need to write a script the lists the files in a specific directory that have been modified in the last 24hrs.<BR><BR>In unix, I could just run <pre class ...

Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

Most people tend to encounter shell scripts as attempts to write portable utilities that run properly on most, if not all, UNIX workalikes. Instead of making the best use of the shell and related ...

I feel like naively, this should work:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">for %i in (*.*) do ren "%i" "%random%%i"</pre><BR><BR>However, it renames every file with ...