Y ou may assume the command line is only for system admins or developers; but for any power user, it's a great tool if you ...

If you are a system administrator, IT professional, or a power user it is common to find yourself using the command prompt to perform administrative tasks in Windows. Whether it be copying files, ...

Now here's something you likely didn't expect at Microsoft's Build developer conference: A staple feature of Linux (and Unix) is coming to Windows 10. The company is integrating the Bash command-line ...

Though most business users rarely use it, Microsoft Windows has a text-based Command Line interface in addition to the usual graphical user interface of buttons, windows and menus. Most often, ...

Finding a competent enough command line tool is not difficult. The default Windows tool is great, but at the end of the day, it cannot do everything. If you’re out ...

Windows Terminal will become the default command line experience on Windows 11. The change will happen "over the course of 2022" for Windows 11 PCs. You can already change the default command line app ...

I should have put this in my book I just learned two Windows command line utilities that I never knew existed: assoc and ftype. Both will display or modify the file association list, and are ...

Operating systems need at least a minimum of maintenance to run properly over the long term. While some important tools are already included from Microsoft, many professionals want or need more ...

Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

We're big proponents of "work smarter, not harder" here at XDA, and that means figuring out how to automate as much of our ...

I am trying to decide which language to use to implement some open-source, cross-platform (Windows, OS X, Linux) command-line tools. My plan until recently was to use Python. Development in Python is ...