CMD

Table of Contents

• General
  • Directories
    • Change working directory with eleveated permissions
    • Show files in all subdirectories
  • Copy/Move Files
    • Copy everything in "folder1" and paste it into "folder2".
    • Get everything in "folder1" and move into "folder2".
  • Removing files/folders

General

Directories

Change working directory with eleveated permissions

cd /d "your directory here without quotes"

Show files in all subdirectories

dir /s - shows files in all subdirectories

Copy/Move Files

Copy everything in "folder1" and paste it into "folder2".

robocopy "source" "destination" "flags" e.g: robocopy "c:/my folder" "d:/new folder" /E

Get everything in "folder1" and move into "folder2".

robocopy "c:/mysourcefolder" "c:/mydestinationfolder" /E /MOVE

Removing files/folders

rd "folder name" /s /q

• /s - Removes all files/folders in the selected folder and deletes the folder itself
• /q - Does the operation silently