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.

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, ...

A handful of useful productivity tools wrapped up in a simple shell script.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...