I always enjoy learning other time saving steps and tricks, which means I am happy to leach from your experience and use it as my own. If you have your own favorites, feel free to drop me a comment. Over the course of your entire IT career this could add up to several minutes. So save a keystroke and leave the space out. You will notice that there is no space in the command. Note 2: If you really want to run it from cmd, you can call powershell as in the following example powershell -command 'Get-Clipboard sort Set-Clipboard'. Note: In place of clip you can use Set-Clipboard that has more options. The command is ipconfig/ all (or ipconfig/ release & ipconfig/ renew). The advantage of this method is that you have nothing to install. It may not seem like much, but a network admin will use this command many times in a day, so over a long time this can add up. I will use Ctrl-V on the text I have highlighted above and watch what happens: WinXP_圆4_5400_storage_included_ISO.Īs easy as that, I have copied from the command prompt and used the text!Īnother command prompt trick is just to save a single keystroke in executing a command. You can go to your document, your explorer address bar, or anywhere else and paste it in just like any other clipboard contents. Once it is highlighted, just hit enter to put it in your clipboard.
Then I just used my mouse to select the text. I followed the steps above until I could click Mark. Now I want to select some text, so I have just typed dir to see some output: Then select Edit, which pops out more choices: If you click on the little black C:\ at the top left of the window, notice what you get: Windows Terminal is a good start, I hope to improve this experience, Windows10 has made us like Windows enough. At present, some terminal tools such as PowerShell Core are not very good for Ctrl + C / V support, but in some scenarios it is very tasteless. Let’s take a look at a command prompt window: The Windows command line can also be copied/pasted directly using Command / Ctrl + C / V. Well, there is a way around this failure. The first one that I love to use stems from my constant attempts to copy text from the command prompt window and failing miserably.
I just wanted to mention a couple of tricks that I have found to be useful. When using the Command Prompt in Windows, copying and pasting can save time. In the meantime, we may still be using our old standby commands in the Windows command prompt just because we have been using them for so long and don’t want to let them go. More than likely we are on the PowerShell bandwagon and learning it as fast as we can. It seems that we chug along with the same commands over and over in our daily lives as network admins.