Command Prompt Basics 2 - File Manipulation

[SuperAndrewBenson]

u def didnt tell me wat i wanted to kno thank u fer nothing :)

[BULD0SIS]

@mobilephone2003 can you hide a folder or a file with cmd?

[KrIsstyanuS]

what if a file name is composed by several separated words like this for exemple :" b c d.txt " ?

because I have souch a file and whenever I try to manipulate with it, the system can not find it!

help me please!

[EpIClLamA46]

Excellent video. Anyone view the help page and read what commands do, but seeing what they do and how to use them in these videos infinitely helped me understand the dynamics of the Command Prompt and its use. Thanks for making the video posts.

[ixcaliber]

Is there any "open with" command? What I want to do is open a file with an unrecognized extension (ex: filename.x4k) but I want to set the written batch file to open it with cmd. I know you can do this with notepad by typing "notepad.exe filename.x4k" but that is useless to me. I assumed it might be "cmd.exe filename.x4k" but all that does is displays copyright information. Any help?

[djemo0590]

this help me a lot!

[Sitof100]

how the hell do you find out your computers name because if i dont find that i can go on to the desktop or any other folder right

[BULD0SIS]

@Sitof100 you can use the %username% command

so to go to your desktop for example you can do

cd C:\Users\%username%\Desktop

And if you want to find out what your computer name is just type "echo %username%"

[theif519]

If you type "Cat b.txt" wouldn't that work as well?

[rocketrobotzrobotz11]

nice i ONLY KNEW copy start del

[MsAscd]

nice

[TheXasapakos]

can you delete from cmd files that are inside the system 32 ??

[theif519]

@TheXasapakos I wouldn't advise it, but you can forcefully delete files with del /f but if you forcefully delete something important, you'll be hurting for it later.

[Ekas12345]

my cmd just wont let me delete things, I write Del /Q "name of file", but nothing happens... And I am in the right place to

[Pestilencexx]

DUUUDE, this is so fun!

Thank you so much for these videos!

[wyattcon11]

quick question, can use use the same commands if the computer is using a language other than English? 

[cazman100]

What about the "edit [filename]" command?

[trivacygame]

mag bigti ka!

[trivacygame]

mag bigti ka

[ghtjugljhg]

my cmd box deletes stuff after like 50 lines how do i stop that

[d3fish3r3]

@ghtjugljhg If you havn't already found out, you can right-click the top bar on the command prompt and then go to properties. From there go to the Options tab and then change the Buffer Size and change the value. I wouldn't change it too high because it'll use alot of memory. Good luck.

[chimera8888]

what are the commands that can help me like lets say when u press /? u get a help on commands and when u type "help" u get some of the commands is there anything else i can type to get help ?

[weebleapplesmooooo]

Hey, you make really helpful videos. Thanks.

Let's say you want to edit what you typed in dir.bat or dir.txt. Is that possible, or do you have to delete the file and make a new one?

[MegaARSENAL123]

hi

how do you copy a file from a hardrive to a USB using command prompt

PLZ REPLY ASAP.

[qwv803]

@MegaARSENAL123 xcopy path of file to copy path to usb

[CBarrood]

Stop.. Take a deep breath... and slow the hell down..

[computerguy657]

does anyone know how to search a drive for persific file extension plz

[Kninznznastop]

has ANYONE noticed that like all the cmd videos have a guy who has a UK accent?

[Oyger]

Hi.. i dont get the: documents and settings\øystein>desktop up...do u know how i can get this up??

[flarith]

@Oyger Are you using vista? If so, you might need to go to Users, then your user name, then desktop.

[angelelric93]

thank you so much ! you're awsome. bytheway, I looove your accent hihi :)

[ragingtears007]

i need anyones help here please. :<

ok so i have a program that needs to be deleted and so i tried just removing all the files like the idiot i am. now.. all the files in Program Files Folder in the C drive are gone but when i go to Programs and Features the program is still there :< when i try to delete it by right click nothing pops up. no box that says uninstall. how can i just get rid of it? D:

[FtDSpartn]

@ragingtears007 I have a folder on my desktop that wont delete also...help us both,someone plz.

[lankajam33]

Thanks loads, this saves loads of time.

[dogboy23]

very nice

[theoblesk]

may you do another video explaining how we can connect cmd to the internet ... and in what ways we can use it then ?? thx a ton !!

[djemiko]

wow this has been so helpful, great vid! Question though, is there any way of getting lists of all the / letter commands, such as the /w ? I've also heard of /s. Also, any other lists for the common commands besides whats listed under 'help'? Thanks! :3

[djemiko]

oops nevermind XD

[asdcvbert]

there are some files that can be deleted only with a command in cmd i need it...it deletes files that cant be deleted or renamed because they are no longer located there can you tell me it?

[Shane5shane]

Hey, do you know how to Open files from CMD and close it also ?

[lwanatt]

to open just type out the whole directory, to close type exit

[timthearcher1]

awesome! my mom said i didn't need to know DOS, but you taught me a lot on it. Thanks! Keep up the awesome videos!

[Dreams1337]

Thank U very much for the video and ur first video is also Nice thank U ....:)

[Shane5shane]

Hey do you know how to delete the files in the promt ?

[AnLa061095]

do you mean clear all of the the text on the screen? cause that is "cls"

[ThExR3V0LVER]

Do del /? in Cmd to find out ;)

[andyfreerunner]

whenever i try and see what's in a word document it always say that they can't find the file (bare in mind i'm in the correct folder on my cmd) can you help me? i don't know what i'm doing wrong :(.

P.S You're videos are brilliant : D they've helped me loads

[alphaswordrain1337]

is there a way to revert to a previous version of a file/picture by using the command prompt?

[AtomicNerd001]

lol, good tut, but last time i checked, copying and duplicating were the same thing!

[zaneski13]

im trying to make a bat file that makes a txt file for me. i made this so far @echo on cd .. cd .. cd .. md 12345 cd 12345 copy con c.txt hi ^Z msg * whatever Only problem, when the bat file gets to the copy con c.txt the command prompt only acceptd user input. not what i wrote. EG HI Ho can i make it that the bat file will make the text automaticly. so that everything is made in a few seconds without the user having to type it in.

[VoodooSeven]

Just watched your first video too =-) i thought this one was equally helpful, Thankyou very much. 5/5, HOW COULD IT NOT BE!!

[gucci2490]

thank you so much for this, i was trying to change a theme manually and i accidently renamed my shell32.dll and my computer would not even go to the desktop. thanks to this vid i was able to fix it with cmd, thanks so much lol

[71127695]

cool

[KyrylHolushko1337]

Is there any way to put the ^Z (Ctrl+Z) in other words SAVE into a txt file & THEN change it to .BAT or .CMD to run it or is it not possible?

[rocksta1992]

is it possible to make a batch file that would create another file using the copy con command and then enter all the text to make the new batch file do something? Because i am trying to make a batch file that asks the user to set a password and then creates another batch file that starts a system shutdown unless the password set by the user is entered.

here is the code i have so far (in the next comment) but it will not enter text into the new file. Does anyone know how i can do this?

[BJseal91]

Hi Duncan love your vidios very good and they all work :) do you know how to expire your account password evry 2 weeks using cmd if you do please let us know many thanks keep making vidios they are brilliant

[freekadam]

Thanks a lot. It really helped.

[DrVJJ]

i havve a file that appears in my proses xp every 5 minutes and if i dont delete this it will crash my internet , is ther any whay i can stop my computer from opening the file ?

[jetskier926]

when it happens press control alt delete an end task it should be a command prompt or its a file thats not open on your task bar at the bottom of your screen

[x975]

dude this video is just badass man.

[Geekmann]

When you typed ^Z you said "control zed"... I get the zed partm but do you press control or what?

[Geekmann]

Ah, I figured it out, sorry. Thanks a lot for posting this! I wish I had been around back in the days of DOS...

[lieod]

me too it must of been hard to remember the file names OH yer not so hard if they had the dir command

[AkumaADemoncus]

I am trying to copy a file but it says invalid ms-dos function because of the name but I cant rename the file because it may corrupt the file. any idea's?

[lieod]

i think that your using the command prompt for DOS check the first vid and correct it

[AkumaADemoncus]

no nevermind I had it fixed long ago it didn't work because I believe on sp1 compared to sp2. I believe on sp1 if you create a file with no attributes then try to convert it into a zip folder and try to add things into it, then it will say corrupted folder but on sp2 it allows me to do that. on sp1 you need to create a new zipped folder then change the attributes.

[olooj]

brilliant vid learning loads from these thxs m8! how do you open or delete a text file which has a space in the name? cause i tried it on a file name called Bicycle brakes.doc and it didn't recognise it... help...?

anyways great vid!

ollo, :)

[astrophotographer2]

haha your name is duncan

[SO459]

i was trying to gettit to copy files from folder to folder and make a .bat and i didnt know the diff. between copy and xcopy!

Cheers! Keep em comin!

[BroodFreakey]

a computer is safer and faster without Internet...

;)

[turito521]

great video

[drevonf]

i cant get to windows directory please help

[Hotlips4000]

I'm having the same [problem to! ;(

My directory hasn't displayed on booting up my system for about a year now,..and i don't know why?;(

All i see is "press F11 for Recovery" and thats it!

I would love to get it back,but i don't know how?

Can anyone fill me in on how i do this?,..and why it dissappeared in the first place?

[DawnValorum]

Anything you can type in cmd (commands, programs whatever) is either in the dir. that you're in or in the system32 folder.

You can use paint or notepad because they're in system32. If you open paint in a batch but don't type start first, you will get a DOS window that just floats there. When you close the window, notepad will close too.

[MLGshellshock]

hey this is a really cool video and i found ur 1st one really helpfull. but i wanted to know if there was a way to vies the passwords of all the users on your computer because i program computers at a school i work at and i thought it would be really helpfull if u knew how to access user passwords. please write me back

[seniortac0]

I'm not sure if there's a way to see the password but it is really simple to change the password by going, net user (name of account) * , minus the parenthesis of course and then type the password twice and press enter... it won't show up on your prompt though...

[randomafied]

y is ur cursor on the resize thing all the time

[shami117]

to be honest that was a great video, learned a lot as a beginner

[LAPPianoMan]

Hey sorry for all my dumb questions if I ad been smart enough to just watch the entire video I would have known. thanks for the great series though it really helped out.

[LAPPianoMan]

hey great vid! My computer seems to be different though when I use the del command cmd deletes what evers in my random file and it states it deleted c:\blablab\randomfile\* any way I could just delete random file?