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In this episode of Defrag Tools, we geek out on our favorite Command Prompt commands.
Command covered:
where.exe - Where
Shows where a executable/script is on the PATH environment variable
- where notepad.exe
ipconfig.exe - IP Configuration
IP Address Configuration - Basic
- ipconfig
IP Address Configuration - Advanced/All
- ipconfig /all
IP Address Renewal/Reset
- ipconfig /flushdns
- ipconfig /release
- ipconfig /renew
- ipconfig /registerdns
findstr.exe - Find String
- /s - Sub Directories
- /n - Line Number
- /p - Search Pattern. e.g. Foo*Bar to match: Footastic Barcode
- /c - Escaped characters. e.g. /c:"\"Foo\" Bar" to find the text: "Foo" Bar
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