These days, most people won’t have much reason to fall back to a command line in Windows given that most functions have a corresponding graphical interface. However, for more serious things like network diagnostics (like ping, traceroute, pathping, nslookup etc) there is often no avoiding the command line window.<\/p>\n
Anyway, one tip that I always found handy was finding out what options a command line application would accept. Given that a command line application doesn’t have a “Help” menu you’d be stuck if you didn’t know what you were doing in the first instance. If you do find yourself stumped, most command line applications will accept the “\/?” resulting in the following commands:<\/p>\n
Easy stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These days, most people won’t have much reason to fall back to a command line in Windows given that most functions have a corresponding graphical interface. However, for more serious things like network diagnostics (like ping, traceroute, pathping, nslookup etc) there is often no avoiding the command line window. Anyway, one tip that I always … <\/p>\n