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12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate Command Line Commands - CLI Tutorial é Kolade Chris The Windows command line is one of the most powerful utilities on a Windows PC. With it, you can interact with the OS directly and do a lot of things not available in the graphical user interface (GUI). hitpsswwwreecodecamp,orginewsicommandsine-commands-l-tutoral 4131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial N.B.: You nave to be Careful while using the commands |'ll snow you. This is because some commands can have a lasting negative or positive effect on your Windows PC until you reset it. In addition, some of these commands require you to open the command prompt as an admin. Cen ee perery Seas fee eet ead fern eer open Se Perens carrey eed Poy een Windows Command Line Commands nitpssiwwwreecodecamp,orginewsicommandsine-commands-l-tvtoral 2131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial an administrator: driverquery — Lists All Installed Drivers Itis important to have access to all drivers because they often cause problems. That's what this command does - it shows you even the drivers you won't find in the device manager. tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! sist 2936123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial chdir or cd —- Changes the Current Working Directory to the Specified Directory BH Command Prompt systeminfo — Shows Your PC's Details tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 4131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial ax Cornimnana rromp. eC Sasa eee Pesca cae Seely etree oooh rs eos sc eee semi PeVpezp Loe eee 5 Coane es ra HP EliteBc oe RO eee set — Shows your PC’s Environment Variables tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 9131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial prompt — Changes the Default Text Shown before Entering Commands By default, the command prompt shows the C drive path to your user account. You can use the prompt command to change that default text with the syntax prompt prompt_name $6: tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 2736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate N.B: If you don't append $c to the command, you won't get the greater than symbol in front of the text. clip — Copies an Item to the Clipboard For example, dir | clip copies all the content of the present working directory to the clipboard. IH Command Prompt tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate They are Associated With BH Command Prompt [cane ser ACCDEFile.15 ACCDRFile.15 ACCDTFile.15 Pree la ates ee) title - Changes the Command Prompt Window Title Using the Format title window-title-name tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 8131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate fc - Compares Two Similar Files If you are a programmer or writer and you want to quickly see what differs between two files, you can enter this command and then the full path to the two files. For example fe “file-1-path” “file-2- path". cipher — Wipes Free Space and Encrypts Data tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 9131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate You can use the cipner command to wipe the arive clean and encrypt such files. BE Command Prompt netstat -an — Shows Open Ports, their IP Addresses and States tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 10181 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial you Know How Long it Takes to Transmit Data and a Get Response BH Command Prompt color — Changes the Text Color of the Command Prompt Enter color attr to see the colors you can change to: tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! st 2736123, 722 AM ‘Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate Entering color 2 changes the color of the terminal to green: id Command Prompt - md for /f “skip=9 tokens=1,2 delims %i in (‘netsh wlan show profiles') do @echo %j | findstr -i -v echo | netsh wlan show tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 12181 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate ipconfig - Shows Information about PC IP Addresses and Connections Bi Command Prompt tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 13181 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial troubleshoot issues with internet connections. sfc — System File Checker This command scans your computer for corrupt files and repairs them. The extension of the command you can use to runascanis /scannow. powercfg — Controls Configurable Power Settings You can use this command with its several extensions to show information about the power state of your PC. Youcan enter powercfg help to show those extensions. tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 1431 2736123, 722AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial oa Coe Soe ee Pee eas cee ees For example, you can use powercfg /energy to generate a battery health report. Bil Administrator: CAWINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe eestor The powercfg /energy command will generate an HTML file containing the report. You can find the HTML file in C:\Windows\system32\energy-report.html. tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! Donate 16131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate [BH Command Promot del — Deletes a File {BH Command Prompt attrib +h +s +r folder_name — Hides a Folder tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 16131 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial lo snow the Tolder again, execute the commana - attrib -h -s -r folder_name . {BH Command Prompt start website-address — Logs on toa Website from the Command Line {BH sound tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Sc 2014 mre tree — Shows the Tree of the Current Directory or Specified Drive nitpssiwwwreecodecamp,orginewsicommandsine-commands-l-tvtoral 12736123, 722 AM ‘Command Line Commands ~ CL Tutorial Donate ver — Shows the Version of the OS tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate ndows [Version 10.0.19044. tasklist - Shows Open Programs You can do the same thing you do with the task manager with this command: iitntor Command Prompt The next command shows you how to close an open task. tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 20181 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate taskkill /IM "chrome.exe" /F : date — Shows and Changes the Current Date {BH Command Prompt- date tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 2113 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate BH Command Prompt - time vol — Shows the Serial Number and Label Info of the Current Drive {BH Command Prompt tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 2aist 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate CTRL + C — Stops the Execution of a Command -help — Provides a Guide to other Commands For example, powercfg -help shows how to use the powercfg command tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 2736123, 722AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate Se SER rere ery Pee aes echo — Shows Custom Messages or Messages from a Script or File {BH Administrator. Command Prompt You can also use the echo command to create a file with this syntax echo file-content > filename.extension. tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! pais 2736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate mkdir — Creates a Folder IBY Command Prompt rmdir — Deletes a Folder tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 2si81 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate N.B.: The folder must be empty for this command to work. more — Shows More Information or the Content of a File [BH Command Prompt tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 26181 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Donate BH Command Prompt ren — Renames a File with the Syntax ren filename.extension new-name.extension BH Command Prompt cls - Clears the Command Line tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! aris 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial exit — Closes the Command Line shutdown — Shuts down, Restarts, Hibernates, Sleeps the Computer You can shut down, restart, hibernate, and sleep your PC from the command line. Enter shutdown in the command line so you can see the extensions you can use to perform the actions. For example, shutdown /r will restart your computer. tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! 2736123, 7232 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial [Donate | Conclusion This article showed you several “unknown-to-many” commands you can use to get access to hidden functionalities on your Windows PC. Again, you should be careful while working with these commands because they can have a lasting effect on your OS. If you find the commands helpful, share the article with your friends and family. In case you know another useful command | did not list, tell me about iton Twitter. | will add it and mention you as the source. Kolade Chris Web developer and technical writer focusing on frontend technologies. | also dabble in a lot of other technologies. tps www reecodecamp.orginewsicommandsine-commands-ltverial! e181 12736123, 722 AM Command Line Commands ~ CLI Tutorial Learn to code for free. freeCodeCamp's open source curriculum has helped more than 40,000 people get jobs as developers. Get started freeCodeCamp is a donor-supported tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charity organization (United States Federal Tax Identification Number: 82-0779546) ‘Our mission: to help people learn to code for free. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons - all freely available to the public. Donations to freeCodeCamp go toward our education initiatives, and help pay for servers, services, and staff. You can make a tax-deductible donation here. Trending Guides What is Programming? What is a ROM? 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