Since this is a linux forum, I thought I'd post a neat WinXp reference

[hard candy]

I never had looked into this before, but I am impressed by the WinXP command line tools.
There is even "more' "find" "finger" and Ctrl-C even works!
I am now a WinXP guru since I know the commandline in WinXP. Anyone need a consultant? :DWinXP Commandline reference (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_o.mspx)

[ph34r]

There are also win32 versions of the GNU fileutils and textutils.

[cybertron]

Wow, I'm surprised that they even acknowledge the existence of the command-line, with as much as they've been trying to do away with anything DOS (including DOS programs:mad: ).

[shakin]

Originally posted by cybertron
Wow, I'm surprised that they even acknowledge the existence of the command-line, with as much as they've been trying to do away with anything DOS (including DOS programs:mad: ).

Well, the XP command line has nothing in common with DOS other than a few similar basic utilities. It's a full 32-bit command line environment like a *nix shell rather than the 16-bit environment in Win9x.

Of course, the Windows command line falls miles short of *nix even with the XP improvements. Windows Server 2003 is slightly better. From what I hear, they intend to put out a version of Windows that can run with no GUI at all, so they will really have to improve their command line for that to happen. I'm not sure if this is in the future for 2003 or if it's a Longhorn thing. They are responding to demand from sysadmins and it's targetted entirely at disrupting Linux.

Either way, right now I am installing a GUI-free Debian server. I'm not going to wait for MS to finally come out with a GUI-free server OS when I can do it right now. By the end of the summer I'll have replaced my last Windows server with a Linux one.

[mdwatts]

There is even a 'ipconfig' (is that right?) that I had to recently use (ipconfig /all ??) to get the wireless cards MAC address from the gf's XP box. :cool:

[cybertron]

Originally posted by mdwatts
There is even a 'ipconfig' (is that right?) that I had to recently use (ipconfig /all ??) to get the wireless cards MAC address from the gf's XP box. :cool:

Yep. It's by far my most used XP command line tool. Back when we were having tons of network trouble ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew were our two first steps in troubleshooting. Heck, the command prompt was at the top of my recent programs list until very recently, ahead of Unreal Tournament and Word:)

[DMR]

Originally posted by mdwatts
There is even a 'ipconfig'... Yeah, and route, netstat, ping, nslookup, and, and, and...

Oh yeah- CTRL-C has always been there AFAICR.

:)

[Icarus]

Originally posted by ph34r
There are also win32 versions of the GNU fileutils and textutils. I have that at work, even includes a BSD zsh :)

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

[mdwatts]

Why hasn't anyone created a new thread/poll for all of our favorite Windows commands? :cool:

:eek: :rolleyes: :eek:

[Icarus]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Why hasn't anyone created a new thread/poll for all of our favorite Windows commands? :cool:

:eek: :rolleyes: :eek: Because everyone would select either the

C:\deltree *.*
or
A:\format C:

commands :D

[DMR]

Originally posted by ph34r
There are also win32 versions of the GNU fileutils and textutils. The Hamilton C Shell and Cygwin are fun too- gives you a warm fuzzy feeling to do greps on your Win boxen.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by DMR
boxen. "There's that word again...I don't think it means what you think it means"

I'm on an official campaign to educate people that boxen and virii are not words and people should stop using them outright :p

[DMR]

Originally posted by Icarus
I'm on an official campaign to educate people that boxen and virii are not words and people should stop using them outright :p Oh RTFJF, would ya' Steve... :rolleyes:

:D

[hard candy]

My boxen had virii once and I had to plotka to stop any proggy.

[DMR]

Originally posted by hard candy
My boxen had virii once and I had to plotka to stop any proggy. Wow, sounds like those boxen were pretty borken (http://heimlich.homelinux.net/hackers_jargon.html#borken), huh?

[hard candy]

Yea, the kludge made munge, woot a mess.

[chesskidd]

and netcat too
:)

[chesskidd]

also color c,
showing red devil :D