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The Windows Command Line Beginner's Guide gives users new to the Windows command line an overview of the Command Prompt, from simple tasks to network configuration. In the Guide, you'll learn how to: -Manage the Command Prompt, and see how the Command Prompt overlaps with Windows PowerShell -Copy & paste from the Windows Command Prompt. -Create batch files. -Remotely manage Windows machines from the command line. -Manage disks, partitions, and volumes. -Set an IP address and configure other network settings. -Set and manage NTFS and file sharing permissions. -Customize and modify the Command Prompt. -Create and manage file shares. -Copy, move, and delete files and directories from the command line. -Manage processes from the command line. -And many other topics. Read more
Publisher : Azure Flame Media, LLC; 3rd edition (December 7, 2013)
Publication date : December 7, 2013
Language : English
File size : 501 KB
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This book has been a big big help with taking the Google-Coursera IT course! While it may be a few years old, ALL the commands are current! I like the way the Commands are written in very readable print, not teeny tiny like some books! The book is very simple yet explicitly written. The commands are organized into well thought out chapters. The first chapter explains how to access the command line several different ways and how to add administrator privileges if needed and why you would use the commands. He also explains all the flags you commonly might add to the commands and why and how to access help features and how to check to see if commands worked! This Author knows his stuff! If you are taking IT courses, want to brush up on IT skills, or want to learn more about what goes on in the Window's background, I highly recommend this book! Excellent! His Ubuntu/Linux command line book is just as well written!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018 by Gary Morford
Definitely more than $0.99 worth of usefulness in here (at time of review, cost is 99 cents) I went through this book in about two weeks on my Kindle. I'm sure others can go through it quicker, but I was practicing with most of the commands mentioned in the book as I read about them. It's a good read; I like the author's conversational style of writing. Also, he sometimes provides a little history here and there about Windows/DOS and PCs in general, some of which was interesting, and if that's not your thing, there's not so much of it to bore you. I got a pretty good feel for what can be done from standard Windows commands and also increased my familiarity with not only the commands themselves, but the available switching options. Some parts could have used a little more explanation. For example, in the chapter on networking, he provides a secondary way of obtaining your IP address using netsh (net shell) but this is practically the only mention of netsh in the book and he treats it like a command, when in fact, netsh is a command-line utility with a whole slew of other capabilities. Sure, the full power of netsh would be beyond the scope of the book, but he could have taken a paragraph, or heck, even a footnote to explain that. On the other hand, he dedicates an entire chapter to disk partitioning, (the diskpart utility), and while it's good to know that that exists, if I were seriously planning on doing ANY sort of disk partitioning, there's NO WAY I would rely on the equivalent of 10 or so e-book pages to walk me through. While he is pretty good in every chapter about giving necessary cautions of what the reader needs to be careful with, the diskpart utility in particular is in a whole other category of its own, basically it gets a "DO NOT TOUCH WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION" label in my mind. So I kinda glossed through that chapter to see that, yes, diskpart exists, but I don't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole until I'm well-read (in more substantial books) and have backed up everything on my hard-drive. Opposed to one of the negative reviews, I don't consider this book a no-brainer for absolute-zero beginners. I think most people, even computer savvy folks, will learn a few things here. The ideal audience in my opinion would be someone who's comfortable with general use of a computer, has maybe opened the command prompt once or twice, and perhaps even executed a couple of commands, but maybe didn't really know what he/she was doing, and wants to learn more. This book will give you a gateway into the "more" you're looking for, but for any serious command line dabbling, I recommend supplementing the book with other sources, many of which are freely available online. ESPECIALLY supplement if you're dabbling with anything that includes the /delete option or, *shudders* diskpart. One minor complaint: I wish the author had taken more time to explain how unforgiving the command prompt is when it comes to spaces. This can especially be a headache if you try messing with batch files (which are only briefly covered in the book anyhow) but it applies everywhere. Most computer programming languages are pretty lenient about spaces. Not DOS commands. If you follow the format exactly as in the book, I'm sure you'll be ok, but if you're doing some free-form typing, be sure to mind your spacing. It's a very subtle mistake that can cause the command prompt to choke with strange error messages when you're off by a space. This really should have been more explicitly pointed out. Still, you're virtually guaranteed to get your 99 cents worth. Oh, and I just remembered, %20 of the book (which is to say probably about 20 pages) are dedicated to the author's fan fiction work, included here as a bonus. I didn't personally read that part, because I'm not typically into fiction in general. It didn't bother me that he included it either. (Can't blame a guy for promoting his work, whatever the medium) The book, sans the fan fiction, had everything I would expect a beginner's command line book to include. The rest is fluff. If you happen to have a liking for fantasy/fiction as well, then you get an added bonus. If you don't, don't read it. To me, DOS-style command line interfacing and fantasy make for strange bedfellows, but to each their own.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2013 by Matt Kinnaman
I rarely write reviews. However, I felt that the current reviews don't give this book justice. It is for absolute beginners that are clueless on many command line issues. It goes into basic details on many topics, it is an easy read, and it is incredibly cheap ($0.99 at the time of my purchase). It also provides a brief history of the topics that the book discusses in order to give the reader a better understanding of how some of the Windows conventions have come to be. Overall, this book has helped me very much on my journey to become a proficient programmer.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2012 by WillJ
I'll start by admitting that I'm NOT a beginner. I'm willing to take a look at anything that might give me some useful knowledge, but I'm not a beginner. Even a beginner might be confused by an organizational oddity: in my Kindle version, the Table of Contents was at the end of volume. Notes about other things the author has written were at the beginning. Maybe not a serious problem, but putting the Table of Contents somewhere other than the beginning doesn't clarify the organization of the material. Before I bought it, I looked at the preview which contained an explanation of tab completion for the command line. That feature wasn't available wasn't available when I was using PC-DOS 2.11, so I thought there might be additional features that could be handy. As I said, I think the book gives an appropriate amount of explanation for the topics it covers, but I have one problem with the choice of topics. I don't believe that including DISKPART in a beginner's basic toolset is a good idea. If the idea is let people see how much damage they can do with simple commands, maybe, actually, no. I don't see any advantage to using command line over the graphic interface that Windows provides through Manage Computer > Storage > Disk Management. Additionally, when I've used System Commander or Partition Magic to make this kind of change, they start out by providing a way to save the partition table before touching anything, and they recommend you do that. No such advice in this section. Jonathan Moeller does a good job of advising people of the danger that other commands or command options present. His explanations cover syntax and both current and historical context because knowing the why can sometimes help understand the what. While discussing DISKPART was, in my opinion, a sin of commission; the discussion of CHOICE is a clear sin of omission. There's explanation of the syntax for the bat file command itself, but NO explanation or example of how to branch after the user has responded. I don't begrudge the ninety-nine cents this book cost. My rating and criticism would be the same if it had been free, or $1.99.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2013 by Bob Langill