Monday, November 17, 2008

Some important shortcuts of windows command shell [ cmd.exe ]

Many of us may not like to work with windows command mode, but for people like Administrators and Developers sometimes it is more useful and handy than Graphical User Interface. Below are few features of windows command shell which I believe most of us are not using and can prove a great time saver.

A) Tab - Filename Completion - This command completes the file or directory name for you ..you just need to type start letters of file name and press Tab key.

B) F7 - Command Line History -  Displays a menu with the command line history where you choose commands you have already executed.

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C) F8 - Cycle Back command History - Cycles back through previous command lines (beginning with most recent). If first typing the beginning letters of a command, then it will cycle through the previous commands matching that prefix when pressing F8.

D) Up Arrow - Cycles previous command line entries in backwards direction.

E) Down Arrow - Cycles previous command line entries in forwards direction.

F) Right arrow - Repeats letter at a time from previous command line.

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