MS-DOS

Tips

• View Windows command line history: press F7 key

Commands

Create a symbolic link

# from a DOS cmd window with admin rights (not PowerShell window)
mklink /D existing_path new_path

Recipes

• Delete subversion files: FOR /F "tokens=*" %G IN ('DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*') DO RMDIR /S /Q "%G"

• Rename files by adding a prefix: FOR %v IN (*.*) DO REN %v prefix%v

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