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Posted by Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Through the looking glass - the command prompt

Sorry to ask for a different resource but I blame Jim Hoskins. I have a MAC on my desk at work but a PC lap top for out and about time, I am now officially obsessed with working in the Terminal after finishing the course but obviously the command prompt on a PC works differently. Does anyone know of a good tutorial for the command prompt on PC please.

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Véronique Bellamy
Véronique Bellamy
20,810 Points

I'm not sure. You see, the command prompt on PC is a DOS-based command prompt (which is not POSIX-compliant, as they said in the videos). However, here's something I found on Princeton's Computer Science website that looks promising:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr05/cos126/cmd-prompt.html

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Graham Davidson - Check out the command line crash course it's 2 courses in one it covers bash (the shell you are using via your terminal app in OS X) and PowerShell on Windows (which is installed by default on Windows 7 onwards)

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Chris Scott - That's pretty neat, it's like homebrew for Windows.

Powershell + unix tools == Awesome :smile:

Graham Davidson
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Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points
Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Hi all thanks for these, they were the ones that I looked at yesterday as an initial dig around - I think I am going to have a dig through that Princeton course and see where that leads.

Thanks all

G