Windows Command Line

Linux commands for Windows

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:19:55 +0000

It’s very common scenario in IT field that people who are familiar with one OS have to learn/work with another OS. I do see many people, who are familiar with Linux commands, looking for their equivalent commands in Windows OS. Below I have attempted to list down the Windows commands for most widely used Linux [...]

Batch file : ECHO command

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:04:58 +0000

When a batch file is being executed, if echo is turned on, it would print the command currently it’s running on to the command prompt. By default echo is turned on for any batch file. We can turn off echo by including the following line in the beginning of the file. @echo off Command to [...]

How to find disk usage in Windows

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:30:51 +0000

Windows does not have any in-built command(Like the Linux command du) which show the disk usage statistics for a directory. However, there’s a downloadable tools from SysInternals(now part of Microsoft) which can show us the disk usage numbers. Du.exe version 1.4 can be downloaded from the below link. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896651 Find the disk usage of a [...]

Enable disable auto login

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:54:25 +0000

If you are a home user of Windows, then you may want to auto login to Windows without providing password each time you login. It’s also useful in the situations where you are doing some automated work on Windows and you want to be logged in automatically after system boot. Whatever may be the purpose, [...]

Run command for Excel

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:48:33 +0000

We can open Excel application from Run by executing the command ‘excel‘ However, ‘excel’ command does not work from command prompt. We need to use start to open excel application from command line. start excel To open a specific excel sheet from Run window you can use the below command. excel fileName Example: Open the [...]

Run command for Word

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:35:46 +0000

We can launch Microsoft Word application from run window by running the command winword. Note that this command does not work from command line as winword.exe location is not added to the PATH environment variable. However, we can use the below command to open Word application from command prompt. start winword The above commands work [...]

Turn on/off hibernation

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:11:45 +0000

In Windows, we can turn on or turn off hibernation feature. When it is turned off, we don’t see ‘hibernate‘ option in the windows shutdown menu. We can enable or disable hibernation feature from windows command line using ‘powercfg‘ command. Turn on hibernation: We can enable hibernation by executing the below command from elevated administrator [...]

Create empty file from windows command line

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:27:48 +0000

In Linux, we can create an empty file using ‘touch‘ command. There’s no matching equivalent command for touch in Windows OS. However, we can still create empty text files. We can use the file system configuration command ‘fsutil‘ for this purpose. The syntax of fsutil command for creating a file is: fsutil file createnew filename [...]

Create symbolic link

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:22:41 +0000

Like in Linux, we can create symbolic links in Windows OS also. There’s an inbuilt command called ‘mklink‘ using which we can create symbolic links. The commands are explained below with examples. Create a symbolic link to a file: The syntax for creating a symbolic link to a files is as follows. mklink LinkFile TargetFile [...]

Windows last boot time

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:11:51 +0000

You can find the time windows was last rebooted on your computer using systeminfo or wmic commands. Both the commands are explained below. Using Systeminfo: You can run the below command to find the Windows boot time. systeminfo | findstr /C:"System Boot Time" Example: c:\>systeminfo | findstr /C:"System Boot Time" System Boot Time: 1/29/2012, 4:54:04 [...]