Must-Have Keyboard Shortcuts and Tweaks for the Windows Command Line [Command Line]

Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1525 days ago

Weblog Digital Inspiration dives into the Windows command line prompt, serving up several useful command line shortcuts and a few worthwhile tweaks for customizing the command line to your liking. Apart from an overview of some of the more useful function keys and their effects (which we've covered before, and of which F7 is the king), the post also covers simple-but-useful tweaks, like how to change the color scheme of the window. For instance, if you want to have a white background with black text, type color F0 and press enter. To revert to the original color scheme, type color without any arguments. For a list of all available colors, type color /? on the command line.

Tweaking the color may seem superfluous, but if you do a lot of work there, finding a color combo that's easy on your eyes is a must. If you roll with Cygwin, OS X, or Linux, here are more tips on customization.
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for the DOS Command Prompt in Windows [Digital Inspiration]