Computer Productivity Hacks

Command Line

• Manage Network Tasks From the Windows Command Prompt

Mounting shared drives and connecting to remote resources is something you can easily do from the Windows GUI. With our quick guide to the command prompt, however, you can more easily automate large tasks.

• 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.

• Detexter

Detexter is an app designed to extract text from PDF files.

See Also

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