DOS Commands You Should Know

An abbreviated MD command can also be used to create a directory. And RD to remove directory. 😊😉 Love CMD. This is classic. And i love win 3.11 😊 And if you want to be like Neo from the matrix, just write: color A

I just love DOS/command prompt. It just feels like home and always will. Right back where I began with PC’s. I agree it’s important for aspiring technicians to have at least a basic command line knowledge. Glad to see content like this exists in 2023. Nicely done.

Correction at 4:46. "CD .." will not always go to the previous directory. It will always go to the parent directory of where ever you entered the command from. Thanks for the tip of using tab to autocomplete a folder name in the command prompt. I learned something!

If you're doing ping -t, you can press ctrl+pause to have it output statistics so far without stopping it. Useful if you're looking for packet loss % or whatever

As someone who's first computer ran DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11, I still find something new. Namely, the shutdown -ro option.

Been using dos since 83 and still use it every day to back up files using a batch file!

DOS is very powerful. Some would say too powerful for the everyday User. It still remains the only way to solve some issues however. Cool video Rich, a walk down memory lane back to a time I had a full head of hair and it wasn't grey!

One command in the terminal that I always use is diskpart. In general Windows disk utilities have always been poor but diskpart is a very useful utility. I still use the pipe for page breaks....but I am old.😊

Remember deltree? Could remove an entire directory loaded with files without first having to cd and del . first. I never knew about pathping at first I though it replaced tracert but then directly after you covered it. Great list of commands. I use them all quite often. Coming from using dos 3.3 and onward it’s just hard coded in me. Also there is dir/w for wide view of files and can also add the /p to pause at each full page.

These are always awesome to know. Last time I tried to have a conversation about it someone practically threw a Powershell book at me and was like 'get with the times'.

Great vid. I learned some new commands all these years later. Windows Terminal is great. Using it now. Cheers!

I recently discovered this channel and so far really enjoying all the content. I love the BTTF license plate :)

I like to stretch the CMD window to full screen height for some commands and I also use the scroll bar or mouse wheel to move up and down through the history. Also the up-arrow can be pressed more than once to go back a few command to avoid some backspacing and typing

Superb, Rich. One of the best instructional Videos you've ever done. Learned a lot.

It's been a few years....ermm mmmm decades actually, since I had to be familiar with DOS. Dos 6.2, Win 3.1, Win 95 (remember Rolling Stones Start Me Up.....). It was at Win 98 that you actully start forgetting DOS commands per say (and I did). Fun times!

CD\ also gets you back to root. Great video by the way. Always look forward to these. Keep up the great work.

When I changed career in 2000 from Paper Engineer to Programmer we worked all the time with CMD batch files to run the programs we wrote in sequence. It made the business. And it is still used a LOT in the days of bigger software. Powershell is used by some but it's a new thing and, though powershell is more powerful it is NEW and some of us are stuck in our ways... I work in a big listed company and we all still use cmd commands for background and monitor tasks at some point. Good idea to learn CMD language skills even for people that come into new tech roles now.

I absolutely love the terminal app. I do a lot of powershell work and have ver 7 installed for Microsoft 365 administration. This is great for when a clients email gets hacked and I need to delete client side rules that the hackers have installed. But anyway it is very cool to be able to have several tabs of powershell and command prompt open.

I didn't know about the tab key while changing directories. Cool!

My experience with computers started at the tail end of the 9x era, so I never "needed" to figure out anything outside of a GUI. From around 2017-2022 I didn't do much serious computing because my PC was ancient and tired, and I started watching a ton of retro computing videos, mostly on the hardware side and less on the software side (mainly Adrian and The 8-Bit Guy) Now I've got a beast of a computer and my heart is telling me that it's time to go full Linux, but I'm scared to take that plunge until I know how to do command line stuff. So far, all I've confidently used is Diskpart and BCDedit which isn't really that impressive, but this video is kinda exactly what I needed to start figuring more out, so thank you so much for the helpful info!