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Monad cheat sheet for cmd.exe users

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 Many people in windows environment are cmd.exe users. This cheat sheet will help these users to move to Monad shell easily by showing cmd.exe equivalents in Monad.

 

I will keep this blog uptodate as I discover commands for which users are struggling.

 

 

 

CMD.EXE

Monad Equivalent

cd

set-location

cd

cd c:\temp

set-location c:\temp

cls

clear-host

cls

copy con

function copycon {

    [system.console]::in.readtoend()

}

 

 

copy con foo.txt

copycon | set-content foo.txt

dir

get-childitem

dir

dir /ad

get-childitem | where { $_.MshIsContainer }

dir | where { $_.MshIsContainer }

dir /od

get-childitem | sort-object LastWriteTime

dir | sort LastWriteTime

dir /o-d

get-childitem | sort-object LastWriteTime -desc

dir | sort LastWriteTime -desc

pushd

push-location

popd

pop-location

start .

invoke-item  .

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2006
    A shortcut for "dir /w" is:

    get-childitem | format-wide -auto

    You can also do multikey sorts so my default "dir" function in Monad is:

    function dir {
       get-childitem $args -force |
       sort @{e={$.MshIsContainer}; asc=$false},
            @{e={$    .Name}; asc=$true}
    }

    This puts directories first, followed by files and then sorts by name which is equivalent to setting DIRCMD to /OGn.
  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2006
    PingBack from http://hivearchive.com/2006/04/25/microsofts-monad-misses-the-mark/
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    May 29, 2009
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    June 19, 2009
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