In this episode of Defrag Tools, we geek out on our favorite Command Prompt commands.

Command covered:

where.exe - Where

Shows where a executable/script is on the PATH environment variable

• where notepad.exe

ipconfig.exe - IP Configuration

IP Address Configuration - Basic

• ipconfig

IP Address Configuration - Advanced/All

• ipconfig /all

IP Address Renewal/Reset

• ipconfig /flushdns
• ipconfig /release
• ipconfig /renew
• ipconfig /registerdns

findstr.exe - Find String

• /s - Sub Directories
• /n - Line Number
• /p - Search Pattern. e.g. Foo*Bar to match: Footastic Barcode
• /c - Escaped characters. e.g. /c:"\"Foo\" Bar" to find the text: "Foo" Bar

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