Nice little tip for the Command Prompt...

BigToque

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If you've ever wanted to capture the output into a file, all you need to do is append this to your command line (without the quotes):

" > x:\file.txt"
 

middlehead

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That's how I made the playlist files for albums until the ripping software I used added automatic playlist generation
 

Evadman

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uh, yea. You can also style the output using a xls stylesheet. Welcome :)
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Originally posted by: BigToque
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
welcome to 1981.

Most people here (at least most new people) have never even seen the command prompt :p

A sad testment to what these forums have become....

Agreed. BTW: Hi Geekbabe :)
 

HN

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you can paste text in the command prompt via right click ->paste (ctrl v won't work)
 

dighn

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if you put ".log" at the top of a text file, the next time you open it with notepad it automatically appends the date!
 

ISAslot

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if you want to add a file path to a command you can just drag the file into the command window
 

skyking

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dir>output.txt

Creates a .txt file list of the files or directories of the present working directory

dir/s>output.txt

Creates a .txt file of the directories and subirectories, and all files of the present working directory
 

OdiN

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And guess what? If you want to INPUT command lines from a file to a program which asks questions...you can do that too:

format c: /q < y.txt > NULL

If you do that and have a .txt file with y and then hit two returns and save it, it will input that and auto-answer the "Are you sure you want to format" question without any keyboard input. It will then output all of the display the command normally shows to NULL and you will see nothing on the screen.

Definitely sad that so many on here don't know the CLI.

I used to optimize autoexec/config files and then when running memmaker (for those who remember it) it would actually cause more memory to be used instead of less.

Those of us who remember DOS games...and the "not enough memory" errors will know what I am talking about :)
 

MmmSkyscraper

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Originally posted by: OdiN
Those of us who remember DOS games...and the "not enough memory" errors will know what I am talking about :)

I remember needing to free up 2KB to run Syndicate :|

 

OdiN

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Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: OdiN
Those of us who remember DOS games...and the "not enough memory" errors will know what I am talking about :)

I remember needing to free up 2KB to run Syndicate :|

Hehe...so annoying wasn't it...
 

iamwiz82

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Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: OdiN
Those of us who remember DOS games...and the "not enough memory" errors will know what I am talking about :)

I remember needing to free up 2KB to run Syndicate :|

Hehe...so annoying wasn't it...

I remember having a unique boot disk for all sorts of different games :eek:
 

Specop 007

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Command prompt?
Is that like when the Install asks if I want to click the Yes button to confirm the install directory? When it prompots me for an answer? How do you type commands into the buttons??