Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...

This is really more of a Windows question, but I thought someone here might be running some sort of script in a cmd window and had run into this problem:<BR>I have a PHP script that I am running from ...

PowerShell is officially replacing the CMD.EXE command prompt as the default command shell in Windows as of the next upcoming big Redstone 2 aka Creator’s Build update, as confirmed by Dona Sarkar, ...

In the chain of events of an app updating itself, I'd like the final batch file to delete itself and close the command window it is running in. Thus far, I seem to be able to do one or the other, ...

Python is an extremely powerful and flexible programming language that is particularly popular among newcomers to coding thanks to its relatively gentle learning curve. That said, the flexibility of ...

You can prevent or stop Command Prompt from closing immediately after opening or executing a batch file in Windows 11/10 in the following three ways: By using the Pause command. By using the cmd /k ...