Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Windows command line file and folder tools


Change the command prompt path to a different location = cd

 

Create a directory called files at the root of the c:\ drive = md \files

 

Create a directory called new files at the root of the c:\ drive? = md \"new files"

 

Delete the directory data, which contains files, from the root of the c:\drive? = rd /s \data

 

View or modify the application that will open a specific file type? = ftype

 

View or change a file's attributes = attrib

 

Encrypt all the files in the current directory and change the directory attribute to E = cipher /e

 

Delete all files in the current directory with the .txt extension = del *.txt

 

Take ownership of a file named data.txt in the current directory = takeown /f data.txt




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