Originally posted by: hopejr
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Frankly the windows CLI tools are terrible. Grab a copy of Knoppix or Gnoppix and boot into Linux, get a feel for what real CLI tools should be like. Sometimes even when the tools are the same the Windows ones find areas to suck in, like traceroute (tracert on Windows) on unix takes 0.5s to go 8 hops but on Windows that would take easily 10s.
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You might try Pathping instead of tracert. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish it works much better.
couple commands I like simply because they are more usefull or powerful than their GUI counterparts:
diskpart (especially with the 'extend' sub command)
cacls (especially with the /E switch)
ntdsutil
pushd (for that quick jump to a UNC path without doing a Net Use *)
popd
net start, net stop (Pretty much all the net commands actually)
runas (to leverage your admin account)
start (launch stuff with pre-set priorities etc)
xcopy (especially with the /X and implied /O switch. It's rare I need robocopy anymore)
I use a lot of commands from the run line that aren't necessarily dos too.
compmgmt.msc
gpedit.msc
etc..