As a Windows user, you have likely encountered and used Command Prompt before, perhaps not fully understanding its potential. As an effective command-line interface providing access to system files ...

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Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I depend on every day. See what you think.

Y ou may assume the command line is only for system admins or developers; but for any power user, it's a great tool if you ...

Opening the Command Prompt and running some commands every time is somewhat a tedious job. Are you also bored of using it constantly? If yes, then why not use a double-clickable desktop shortcut ...

PowerShell is Microsoft’s alternative to their own Command Prompt. Earlier, Microsoft announced that they will be open sourcing PowerShell and will be bringing it to recent versions of different Linux ...

Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them. Recording the commands that you run on the Linux command line can be useful for two important ...

You're probably aware that most files have an extension such as TXT or EXE after the file name, even though these are not always displayed in Windows. File extensions are how Windows knows what to do ...