Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Useful DOS commands

From the 80s to 2020, I find myself living more and more in DOS, Windows, Powershell, Bash/Zsh, Kube and Cloud shells, and looking forward to leveraging the new Windows Terminal once my work laptop gets upgraded.

I appreciate the complexity and flexibility that Zsh has vs. DOS, and miss a lot of the features.

Sometimes though, there are some interesting tricks I forget about when using DOS/Windows/Powershell.

Grab the history to a file.  I always hit F7, and would appreciate having my session's file around for a basic command window.

doskey /HISTORY > history.txt
https://www.howtogeek.com/298163/how-to-use-your-command-history-in-the-windows-command-prompt/

Also see Start Transcript
https://4sysops.com/archives/powershell-transcript-record-a-session-to-a-text-file/

Pipe a python script's output and stderr output
python -m myscript.py &2>1

Teeing Objects
https://adamtheautomator.com/tee-object-powershell/

Ascii Doom
https://dario-zubovic.itch.io/1337-doom

Last one should be cross-platform!

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