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DOS
Oct 11, 2007, 12:26

Ratty

DOS Oct 11, 2007, 12:26

Oct 11, 2007, 12:26

Ratty

I use DOS (or the command prompt, whatever) daily, constantly. Learned it years ago when I did a rotation in our PC dept. Anybody else remember edlin? Here's a great tip for you DOS jockeys. Add a right click to a folder in windows explorer to open a command prompt in the directory so you don't have to cd all the time. I can't live without this trick:

http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/productions/articles/cmdprompt.htm

I use loops all the time too:

for %f in (*.*) do echo %f

(or whatever command you want to put after the "do.")

So for the first trick in the article I'd do this:

for %f in (jpg tif png) do move *.%f pics

This is what drove me crazy about Macs. No command prompt!

This comment was edited on Oct 11, 12:31.