If you want to tune your PROMPT you just need to use… the PROMPT command ! By default the prompt is set to the current path, but you can customize it a little.
# Display prompt help
PROMPT /?
# Customize your prompt
PROMPT $T $D$_$P $F
# Will give this result in my cmd window
17:11:55,31 sam. 21/10/2006
D:\Documents and Settings\Nicolas>
In our list of “CLI workaround for Windows XP“, a missing command is LESS. Now, you can have a LESS-Like command with the DOS command LIST. Get the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit tools on microsoft.com. While not 100% functionally-equivalent to most versions of the UNIX LESS command, list does support text searching and bi-directional scrolling. This command is useful when examining log files (such as web server logs), configuration files, and software “read me” files when you don’t want to open a Notepad window.
# Usage
filename
REQUIRED - The filename you wish to view-s:STRING
Performs a case insensitive search and highlights the first line matching your search text-g:LINE#
The list display will jump to the specified line number, displaying it at the bottom of the screen. Note that list starts its line numbering from line 0.
While running the list command, here are a few of the functions you may perform:
Cursor keys
Use the cursor keys to scroll through the file. If the file is too wide to view onscreen at once, the left and right cursor keys will be active.Page Up, Page Down Keys
Scrolls through the text file up or down one page at a timeHome, End Keys
Jumps to the beginning or end of the fileW
Toggles text word-wrapQ or the ESC key
Quit the list display/
Perform a case-sensitive search of the string you specify\
Perform a case-insensitive search of the string you specifyn or F3
Searches for the next match to the search stringN
Searches for the previous match to the search stringG
Jump to the specified line numberF
Open a new file without going back to the DOS prompt?
Displays a full list of commands
Note that by entering more than one filename after the list command you can view more than one file. Although only one file is displayed at a time, the following commands switch between files specified on the command line:
CTRL PAGE-DOWN
Displays the next file specified on the command line, or wraps to the first file.CTRL PAGE-UP
Displays the previous file specified on the command line, or wraps to the last file.
Note: The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are not supported on 64-bit platforms.
In our list of “CLI workaround for Windows XP“, a missing command is GREP. Now, you can have a GREP-Like command with the DOS command QGREP. Get the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit tools on microsoft.com.
# display help
QGREP /?
usage: qgrep [-?BELOXlnzvxy][-e string][-f file][-i file][strings][files]
-? - print this message
-B - match pattern if at beginning of line
-E - match pattern if at end of line
-L - treat search strings literally (fgrep)
-O - print seek offset before each matching line
-X - treat search strings as regular expressions (grep)
-l - print only file name if file contains match
-n - print line number before each matching line
-z - print matching lines in MSC error message format
-v - print only lines not containing a match
-x - print lines that match exactly (-BE)
-y - treat upper and lower case as equivalent
-e - treat next argument literally as a search string
-f - read search strings from file named by next argument (- = stdin)
-i - read file list from file named by next argument (- = stdin)
White space separates search strings unless the argument is prefixed with -e, e.g., ‘qgrep “all out” x.y’ means find either “all” or “out” in x.y, while ‘qgrep -e “all out” x.y’ means find “all out”.
# Example for UNIX-Like regexp search
QGREP -X “[a-Z]” MYFILE.TXT
Note: The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are not supported on 64-bit platforms.
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