Top 18 Windows Command Line Tools You Should Know 

Getting familiar with the windows command line is one of the wisest Tech decision you will ever take. It helps you more smarter.

In this article, i will be showing you about Top 18 Windows Command line tools you need to know
1.Hostname: Helps to display the PC Name

2.Time: Helps to display Current PC Time

3.Date: Helps to display Current PC Date

4. Ver: Helps to display your current Operating System Version

5.Cls: Helps to clear your command prompt screen

6.Start: Helps to open another command prompt windows

7.Explorer: Helps to open Windows explorer

8.Stutdown: Helps to shutdown or restart your computer (E.g [Shutdown -s -t 00 to turn computer off immediately] or [Shutdown -r -t 00 to restart computer immediately ]

9.Tasklist: Help display the list if currently running task on your computer

Working with Files & Folders using Windows Command Line

10.Echo: Helps to display any string (i.e text) in the command prompt or Helps to create a text file (E.g [Echo This is a text file > file.txt]) This will create a text file in the current directory called “file.txt”

11.Mkdir: Creates a new folder or directory in the current folder or directory (E.g [Mkdir FolderName])

12.Dir: Helps to list the content of a current directory

13.Cd:Helps to switch to a different directory

14.Cd..:Helps to switch back to previous directory

15:Rmdir: Helps to remove or delete a directory and it has been emptied (E.g [Rmdir FolderName])

16.Del: Helps to delete a file from a directory

17.Move: Helps to move or cut a file from one directory to another (E.g [Move file1   c:\destinationFolder ])

18.Copy: Helps to copy a file from one directory to another (E.g [Copy file1   c:\destinationFolder ])

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