CMD.EXE - Continued...
To continue on my command line tools theme... to view the help files for all command line tools included in XP, go to "Help and Support Center" and search for "Command-line Reference". You'll be shown the A-Z reference.
Here are a few things to point out today:
- Do you ever miss deltree? Frustrated trying to del a folder that contains files? Used to being able to rm -r / on unix? Well, rmdir now has a /s switch to delete folders that contain files and sub-folders. So try rmdir /s on the root of your drive sometime and be as cool as your unix friends.
- fdisk is no longer included in XP. Now you have to use diskpart. I've never used this before, so I have no idea what's involved.
- There are a bunch of new command-line tools on Windows Server 2003 that aren't on XP. A couple of note are choice for prompting the user for multiple options, and clip to redirect output to the Windows clipboard. Nice for doing something like dir | clip so you can paste into notepad or an email without having to use the silly console mark action.