Computer Productivity Hacks

Command Line

• Command Line Crash Course

Quick super fast course in using the command line. It is intended to be done rapidly in about a day or two, and not meant to teach you advanced shell usage.

Windows Command Line

• A Task-Based Guide to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets

Cmdlets are the heart-and-soul of Windows PowerShell, Microsoft's latest command shell/scripting language.

• Microsoft DOS robocopy command

Robocopy: A robust file copy command for the Windows command line.

• An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line

Each command is linked to more info about the particular command.

• Xcopy

The xcopy command is a Command Prompt command used to copy one or more files and/or folders from one location to another location.

Generate File List

• How can one extract the names of files in a folder as text?

Example: C:\Users\me\Downloads\MyFolder> dir /b > filelist.txt

(The text in orange shows the command used once you've navigated into the directory from which you want to generate the list of file names.)

• A PowerShell script to list all files and folders within a directory

This tutorial contains several working answers for using Windows PowerShell to list files and folders.

• How to get a list of sub-folders and their files, ordered by folder-names

Works with cmd.exe, but doesn't seem to work with Windows PowerShell.

Folder & File Compression

• How to Use 7Zip to Create Multiple Compressed Folders in One Go

Example: for /d %%X in (*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%X.zip" "%%X\"

• Batch file : Compress folder or file using windows compress

To compress a folder without using any particular compression software.

Text Extraction

• Capture2Text

Capture2Text enables users to do the following:

1. Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
2. Speech Recognition

• PDF TEXT Extraction

Lists several options.

Text Search

• SILVERCODERS DocToText

Extracts plain text from documents in all popular formats.

• PdfSearch

Search and index text in an archive of pdf files.

See Also

• Spreadsheet Tricks
• User:Dave/Web Hack Notes (Non-Wiki)