DOS versions of: alias, cat, cp, ls, mv, rm, xargs - and desktop.bat | The Sandbox

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

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Do you work at a Linux | UNIX shell, and also at a DOS prompt?

Are you always typing in "ls" only to get:
'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Well, now you can!
Requirements: some kind of DOS-like command line

Save the attached file
Extract the .bat files to your path

I like to have a C:\custom-path folder rather than throwing everything in system32

As a bonus I give you desktop.bat which allows you to CD to your desktop with just eight keystrokes (including the Enter key)

EDIT 10/3/2005: added
alias
cat
rm
xargs

EDIT: 4/3/2006:
modified alias to display list of current aliases if called w/o arguments
added wordpad

SvendTofte

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net will also do most. native builds for win32, so no strange cygwin dependencies. the ls that ships above doesn't do colours, however this one does: http://utools.com/msls.htm just fyi

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

You can also use MSH (microsoft shell) and just create an alias or function. Naturally, you need to wait for MSH or get the beta.

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

I had toyed with the idea of creating an alias.bat - something like

<br>
@echo off<br>
rem alias.bat<br>
<br>
rem capture name of alias<br>
<br>
set tofile=%1<br>
echo @echo off > C:\custom-path\%tofile%.bat<br>
shift<br>
<br>
rem build target command<br>
<br>
set thecommand=%1<br>
<br>
:CONTINUEBUILDING<br>
shift<br>
if (%1) == () goto DONEBUILDING<br>
set thecommand=%thecommand% %1<br>
goto CONTINUEBUILDING<br>
:DONEBUILDING<br>
<br>
echo %thecommand% %%* >> C:\custom-path\%tofile%.bat<br>
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