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You can achieve this using the find and xargs commands. Let's say Parent1 and Parent2 are both stored in a directory named SuperParent. You could do something along the lines of: find /SuperParent -n …

Click the Start Orb and type cmd in the search box, then press Enter. This assumes that by 'DOS prompt' you are referring to a command prompt. If you want a true DOS environment then Windows 7 does …

If you use the c command to add an archive comment, it will overwrite the archive comment that already exists, e.g. rar c example.rar As for deleting files from RAR archives, the syntax is definite …

Yes, if you prefix the command with cmd /k in Start > Run, it will keep the Command Prompt open after execution has finished. For example: cmd /k chkdsk

The aliases are a bit different in Windows 7 - memlogical doesn't exist. Here's how to get the same information in Windows 7: Total Physical Memory wmic ComputerSystem get TotalPhysicalMemory Avai …

Assuming you have the bc (Basic Calculator) utility on your system, you could use the following command and a bit of good old mathematics to calculate π to 10,000 decimal places: echo "scale=10000; 4 …

You could do this with VBScript. Here's some example code: Option Explicit Dim excelObject Set excelObject = CreateObject("Excel.Application") excelObject.WorkBooks.Open "path:\to\file.xls", 0, True …

You can use: ls -d -- */ Since all directories end in /, this lists only the directories in the current path. The -d option ensures that only the directory names are printed, not their contents.

Under Windows all I can think is to do this: myProgram.exe > mylog.txt & type mylog.txt This is based on the command example in your question - if in fact you wanted to append the output to mylog.t …

I don't believe this is a very elegant solution but it does work: Download the GnuWin32 CoreUtils package Extract the files somewhere accessible. Use the 'sort' executable provided along the lines o …

You can use this command: wc -l <file> This will return the total line number count in the provided file.

The following should work: function cd() { builtin cd "$@" && ls -l; } Since the function is on a single line, ensure that it is terminated with ; as above in order to work correctly.

There's a tool, CSVfix, which helps with viewing CSV files. CSVfix is a command-line stream editor specifically designed to deal with CSV data. With it you can, among other things: C …

You can use the following in your batch file: FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir *.delete /A:D /B /S') DO RMDIR /S /Q %%a This uses the FOR command to loop through the output of a given command (in thi …

I'm not aware of a way to do it with a batch script, but you can use the following VBScript: Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2") Set objConfig = objWMIService.Get("Win32_ProcessS …