Some Useful Command Prompt Tricks

Hi, I have compiled a list of commands and tricks which I learnt on the go while working. I thought it may be useful to others also :)  1. While working on a command prompt from long time , use key F7 to see visually a list of command history. It's very useful to me to easily navigate to command required by pressing up and down key. Yes , you can directly use up and down key also to do this, but I feel just going to last few commands...

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Setting an ALIAS in Windows Command Line

I work mostly on Windows nowadays and spend a good amount of time with Windows Command Prompt. Now there are some commands , some common locations which I usually use or switch to.  I tried looking on internet and browsing through couple of stackoverflow articles and finally this is how I solved my problem. We can use doskey (try doskey /? to read more) for solving this problem. Common syntax to use is :          ...

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