I started watching the dot net show a while back, and I downloaded a few episodes particularly to look at the future of Windows as a platform. There was quite a bit of stuff about the likes of Avalon, ...

Microsoft has always taken it on the chin when it comes to command-line power. After all, Windows' strength is supposed to be its graphical user interface, not a bunch of cryptic command-line tools.

Colin Walters of Red Hat chaired a FOSSCamp session about Hotwire, a unique and innovative graphical shell environment designed to improve the command-line user experience. I've been testing Hotwire ...

The Command Prompt is a no-nonsense command-line shell. You can use it to copy files, script logic, and even as a download manager. But it's never been on par with ...

I feel like naively, this should work:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">for %i in (*.*) do ren "%i" "%random%%i"</pre><BR><BR>However, it renames every file with ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 ships with Windows PowerShell out of the box. Along with it, came the Command Prompt which was a successor to MS-DOS Command line. Often the presence of two command-line ...

Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them. Recording the commands that you run on the Linux command line can be useful for two important ...

Apple's built-in text editors offer some quick options for locating and revealing line numbers in documents, which can be exceptionally useful when scripting. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...