On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:56:59 +0100, Brian Gregory
wrote:

On 09/08/2014 23:42, Mayayana wrote:
| You say "always," but I assume you mean "often." I use it very
| seldom. What are some of things you use it for, things "you can't do
| efficiently without using the command line"?
|
|
| Yes correct 'often'.
|
| copy *.doc backups
| cd backups
| ren *.doc *.doc.bak
|

I drag that folder onto the Desktop icon for
one of my backup drives and I drop it. Then I click
"Yes to all" (overwrite files with the same name)
and I'm done. You're probably just about getting your
console window open by now. And of course you'll
need to cd to your docs folder first.



I only want to backup the *.doc files.
Or the *.asm or *.68h or sect*.asm files or whatever I typed.


Sort by extension, then it's easy to select just the ones you want
with shift-click.