DOS Commands

[Bleek]

This is bugging me but I can't remember how to get into a directory in dos or at a command prompt that has spaces in the folder name.

Obviously you use the cd command, however what then for folders with spaces?

[Allen]

To get into My Documents for example, it would be:

CD MYDOCS~1

First 6 letters of folder name plus ~1. Just ignore the space!

[Bleek]

.... 8 character, I remember now. Why on earth did I forget that? I'm rusty I tell ya!

Cheers m8

[Allen]

How can you forget the old 8.3 filename structure??

No probs.

[Bleek]

How can you forget the old 8.3 filename structure??

No probs.

To much point and clicking with the newer models.

[directhex]

if you're on an XP command prompt, you can use tab completion i.e. "cd doc<tab>" will fill with 'cd "Documents and Settings"'

[Allen]

if you're on an XP command prompt, you can use tab completion i.e. "cd doc<tab>" will fill with 'cd "Documents and Settings"'

That don't work for me...

[nichomach]

This is bugging me but I can't remember how to get into a directory in dos or at a command prompt that has spaces in the folder name.

Obviously you use the cd command, however what then for folders with spaces?

Put the path in quotes, e.g. if at C:\, use cd "Program Files\Microsoft Office"

[Allen]

Put the path in quotes, e.g. if at C:\, use cd "Program Files\Microsoft Office"

Blah, that takes to long to type out!

[nichomach]

Blah, that takes to long to type out!

Yeah, but it works if you want to change to a folder where the first few characters are the same as another folder - check your Program Files folder for the number that start w/MICROS for instance - want to take bets on which one is ~1, ~2 and so forth?

[Jiff Lemon]

open command prompt, type CD then drag and drop folder into command prompt window

[DsW]

This is bugging me but I can't remember how to get into a directory in dos or at a command prompt that has spaces in the folder name.

Obviously you use the cd command, however what then for folders with spaces?

As well as using tab completion and double quotes, you can also use wildcard completion (on W2K and XP):

cd doc*

If the expression isn't unique it'll take the first match (alphabetically).

cheers,
dave

[DeludedGuy]

Any of you know a website with all known DOS commands?

[DsW]

Any of you know a website with all known DOS commands?

Type 'help' in the Command Prompt window to get a list of commands then 'help' followed by the command to get specific help.

Other than that... try here - http://www.techiwarehouse.com/DOS/XP_DOS_Tutorial.html

cheers,
dave

[streetster]

in windows 2k + you can just type 'cd documents and settings' and it works.. i thinkthe [tab] thing, you can enable in tweakUI or something like that, as its off by default.

dos commands you need:

cd - change directory, ie cd winnt (also cd .. to go up one level, and cd \ to go back to root dir)
dir - list files, ie dir *.txt or, just dir (dir /p to break results into a screen at a time)
ren - rename, ie ren something.txt something.bat
copy - mm dunno, copy *.txt c:\arse for example
md - make directory, ie md temp
rmdir - remove directory, ie rmdir temp (has to be empty)
del - obvious, delete,
deltree - think deletes all files in a directory and sub directories

er prolly missed a few, like xcopy, never knew what the advantage of that is... dunno what else you would need tho

mark

[killgORE]

to get tab completion use "cmd" rather than "command". So go 'start' -> run, type 'cmd'.
It is a POOR attempt at tab completion. If you have two files in a dir - not that unrealistic - that have similar names. File1, File2 for example. Type "F" press tab, and it will immediately go to "File1" rather than autocomplete to "File" and display the small list of possibilities so u can complete the filename correctly. This is annoying if you have been spoiled by the linux auto complete.