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Two Handy Command Line Scripts

I use these two command line utilities every day. There’s not much to them but they do save me keystrokes and time.

e.cmd

@start notepad.exe %*

Open an editor and save this a e.cmd. Substitute your favorite editor for nodepad.exe. This saves me a few hundred keystrokes a day.

Example:

e mytextfile.txt

cp.cmd

@echo|set /p=""%cd%\%*"" | clip

Save this to a file called cp.cmd. It copies the full file path of the given file to the clipboard. The set /p= part is needed to suppress the newline from the @echo command.

Example:

cp index.html
=> clipboard="C:\Users\mike\Documents\GitHub\mike-ward.github.io\index.html"

Not life changing, just handy.