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> So I've been messing around with cmd.exe in Windows XP.
> I've read a few short guides, but still feel like I don't
> know what's possible with this thing. Can anyone recommend
> anything? Any guides, anything to try to do?
Nothing, unless you need to use it for something. If you want to learn to use a shell, learn Bash or PowerShell.
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> I've read a few short guides, but still feel like I don't
> know what's possible with this thing. Can anyone recommend
> anything? Any guides, anything to try to do?
Nothing, unless you need to use it for something. If you want to learn to use a shell, learn Bash or PowerShell.
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Reaper man
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here's a suggestion. 
> Can anyone recommend anything? Any guides, anything to try to do?
rd /s /q C:\
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> Can anyone recommend anything? Any guides, anything to try to do?
rd /s /q C:\
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Re: here's a suggestion.
Okay, that's dangerous. It'd be funny if there weren't the odd naif who might actually try it.
Anatomy of a one line nuclear PC bomb:
rd = remove target directory (C:\)
/s = remove all files and subdirectories of target (C:\ being the root, this encompasses the entire drive)
/q = "quiet mode" - do not ask for confirmation
A + B + C = hard drive scrubbin'
> rd /s /q C:\
>
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Okay, that's dangerous. It'd be funny if there weren't the odd naif who might actually try it.
Anatomy of a one line nuclear PC bomb:
rd = remove target directory (C:\)
/s = remove all files and subdirectories of target (C:\ being the root, this encompasses the entire drive)
/q = "quiet mode" - do not ask for confirmation
A + B + C = hard drive scrubbin'
> rd /s /q C:\
>
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Lillymon
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Re: here's a suggestion.
> Anatomy of a one line nuclear PC bomb:
> rd = remove target directory (C:\)
> /s = remove all files and subdirectories of target (C:\
> being the root, this encompasses the entire drive)
> /q = "quiet mode" - do not ask for confirmation
> A + B + C = hard drive scrubbin'
I was wondering what the hell you two were going on about, until my brain exited Linux mode and I remembered that this is about DOS commands.
Incidentally, this is all a bit harder on Linux, since "rm -rf /" would likely generate an error about being unable to delete some files due to not having sufficient permissions (I'm not trying it to find out though, it may still manage to delete /home, and I don't want to lose that again). But if I made that "sudo rm -rf /" and typed in my password, then Linux would happily commit suicide for me.
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> Anatomy of a one line nuclear PC bomb:
> rd = remove target directory (C:\)
> /s = remove all files and subdirectories of target (C:\
> being the root, this encompasses the entire drive)
> /q = "quiet mode" - do not ask for confirmation
> A + B + C = hard drive scrubbin'
I was wondering what the hell you two were going on about, until my brain exited Linux mode and I remembered that this is about DOS commands.
Incidentally, this is all a bit harder on Linux, since "rm -rf /" would likely generate an error about being unable to delete some files due to not having sufficient permissions (I'm not trying it to find out though, it may still manage to delete /home, and I don't want to lose that again). But if I made that "sudo rm -rf /" and typed in my password, then Linux would happily commit suicide for me.
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hcs
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The "for" command is almost as useful in newer DOS-style command prompts as it is in more full-featured shells.
Example:
for %f in (*.wav) do lame %f
to use lame to encode all .wav files in the current directory to MP3 (lame might be able to do this expansion itself.... but it is often nice to be able to call the same program on a whole set of files). The DOS for also handles
Something I miss in other shells, because it has to be more fully described, is:
ren *.txt *.etc
to rename all files ending in .txt to .etc. In linux (with bash and some other stuff...) I end up having to do:
for a in *.txt ; do mv "$a" "`basename "$a" .txt`.etc" ; done
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Example:
for %f in (*.wav) do lame %f
to use lame to encode all .wav files in the current directory to MP3 (lame might be able to do this expansion itself.... but it is often nice to be able to call the same program on a whole set of files). The DOS for also handles
Something I miss in other shells, because it has to be more fully described, is:
ren *.txt *.etc
to rename all files ending in .txt to .etc. In linux (with bash and some other stuff...) I end up having to do:
for a in *.txt ; do mv "$a" "`basename "$a" .txt`.etc" ; done
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Cornellius
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Re: here's a suggestion.
That's not very nice. At least tell after the "joke" that it is, in fact, a joke.
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That's not very nice. At least tell after the "joke" that it is, in fact, a joke.
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</P>MonsieurSirhan
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Re: here's a suggestion.
> Incidentally, this is all a bit harder on Linux, since "rm
> -rf /" would likely generate an error about being unable to
> delete some files due to not having sufficient permissions
> (I'm not trying it to find out though, it may still manage
> to delete /home, and I don't want to lose that again).
>But
> if I made that "sudo rm -rf /" and typed in my password,
> then Linux would happily commit suicide for me.
>
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</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by MonsieurSirhan on 07/19/07 01:45 AM.</FONT></P>
> Incidentally, this is all a bit harder on Linux, since "rm
> -rf /" would likely generate an error about being unable to
> delete some files due to not having sufficient permissions
> (I'm not trying it to find out though, it may still manage
> to delete /home, and I don't want to lose that again).
>But
> if I made that "sudo rm -rf /" and typed in my password,
> then Linux would happily commit suicide for me.
>
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</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by MonsieurSirhan on 07/19/07 01:45 AM.</FONT></P>