CMD fun

What are some fun things and tricks you can do in command prompt?  I feel like having a little fun with the mostly unused feature!

thx

 

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msg * Hello %username%, I have developed my own consciousness! Have that run on startup   

Sorry, I'm horribly boring ATM but.. why not include color 0A an some random binary with just a few human readable lines in between. display the DIR tree of your C:\windows or so in the process. Let it all run for half a minute and then end with paudashlake's message

Should get any non-geek rattled at boot time.

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*censored*, now I caught myself trying. Problem is i don't know how to efficiently create random binary lines without typing them manually in the code first

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@echo off
:1
cls
color c0
color 00
color 10
color 20
color 30
color 40
color 50
color 60
color 70
color 80
color 90
color a0
color b0
color c0
color d0
color e0
color f0
goto :1This looks pretty cool.

Is it possible to run a batch file full screen? I have tried the most horrible way imaginable to do so which was running it with a VBS script followed by an alt-enter sendkeys but.. it didn't even work.
would be cool to have such a startup script run fullscreen immediately
Also, the tree command gives some nice confusing output to the non geek, is there a way to make it change color like your code WHILE it runs?

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is there a way to make it change color like your code WHILE it runs?

Nope. That's like asking a batch file to print something while you are saving it to the desktop. 

Is it possible to run a batch file full screen? I

Not that I know of...
You could have a look at the Mode command though.

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mode 200,200

Tnx for the quick answer.
Unfortunate, but kinda expected. As your example indicates 

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Heh, it's like trying to drink from a glass while you're filling it up 

No no!, THAT's perfectly possible   

There is a sleep command that comes with the Win2003 Resource Kit or you can make do with the poor man's ping command:

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@echo off

for %%a in (A B C D E F 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do (
for %%b in (A B C D E F 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do (
color %%a%%b
echo All Your Chameleon Supplies Here
ping -n 3 127.0.0.1 > nul
)
)

Maybe this will give you some ideas.

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@echo off
:1
for %%a in (A B C D E F 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do (
for %%b in (A B C D E F 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do (
color %%a%%b
)
)
goto :1This looks pretty....

Is it possible to output characters to predefined rows/columns, or do you just need spaces and enters to get that effect?
could be the start of some simple command prompt graphics..

To run it in full screen you could just create a shortcut and under the properties of the shortcut select full screen, that works.

Oh sweet, I kinda assumed that wouldn't work for the command shell :S

Oh sweet, I kinda assumed that wouldn't work for the command shell :S

Glad i was of help