Before Windows 7, I had to muck with the registry to get right-click context in Windows Explorer to open a DOS prompt in the folder I was viewing. Windows 7 does it for free. Simple hold SHIFT and RIGHT CLICK within Windows Explorer to view the option to open a command prompt in that folder.
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Searching Contents of Files Via MS-DOS
June 28, 2011 
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I log into a lot of client production servers and do not have the luxury of installing my favorite GUI tools, such as UltraEdit, which (among other things) easily allows me to search within files. On these servers I am limited to what is already installed. Just today I was forced to search an entire […]
Continue readingRemoving all .svn folders from a folder via Windows batch
June 17, 2011 0 Comments
I needed to delete all .svn subversion folders and the files within them and did not want to take the time to do it manually. This little command prompt script will recurse a folder and delete all folders names “.svn” and all the files within. for /d /r . %d in (.svn) do @if exist […]
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The Binary Biker 