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.

(edit)
*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

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Hey Jacob. Here is an idea for your game.

When you get shot (or killed), do that color thing

Hey Jacob. Here is an idea for your game.

When you get shot (or killed), do that color thing

haha, i'll think about it

try this..
Command Prompt + datestamp

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@echo off
start /b %comspec%
:update
set _time=%time:~0,8%
title Time : [ %_time% ] @ [ %date% ]
ping localhost -n 2 -w 500 >nul
goto update

 

Just one tiny problem: The console of course doesn't exit since it's a batch script..
Probally include some sort of "exit" detection in the time update loop?

to run it fullscreen you could type start /max cmd.exe or find the registry key and change the zero to a one, but that wont work right away

find the cmdfile and batfile keys under HKCR in reg, change the value to '%1' *' instead of "%1" *" this works good because i found i couldent get the " to work anyways , that will make it so no cmd files can run

if you put the following in a .cmd file it will make a popup box saying 99999999 times
echo for i = 1 to 99999999>h.vbs & echo msgbox"">>h.vbs & echo next>>h.vbs & h.vbs

to make a batch file work with another one to complete a similar task you could use a if to make it work with another using the same variables

u made my computer crazy 
i killed it throw the taskmanager
 

echo for i = 1 to 99999999>h.vbs & echo msgbox"">>h.vbs & echo next>>h.vbs & h.vbs

you can use ; , and . as a space
for,/f;"tokens=1*";%a;in;('dir /a'),do;echo.%a

you can load an image from cmd in full screen preview
rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen c:\file.bmp

reg add HKCR\cmdfile\shell\open\command /ve /t REG_SZ /d "'%1 %*'"

in cmd\shell\open\command, you can also make it run a specific file when any .cmd file is clicked C:\file.cmd "%1" %*

echo CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" ^& WScript.Arguments(0) ^& """", 0, False>a.vbs
wscript.exe a.vbs file.bat
that will make a .bat file run invisible

try this

@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
      title %%a%%b
   )
)
goto :1

this ones already posted but i added the line
      title %%a%%b
so that the title changes depending on the color

@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
      title %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b - %%a%%b
   )
)
goto :1

in this one the title is longer

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Ok..........Even though this is a two month old topic...... 

this is fun

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@echo off
rem "He is the one..."
:matrix
echo 0110001101110010110101000010111001011001110
echo 0100110011100111100101101100101101001101100
echo 1011001010101010101100100100010100100010011
echo 1011001110101010101101010101000101101101011
echo 0110010010101101010011001000101000101010011
echo 0011001011011101010101100100101001011101101
echo 0110110110101100110101011011001001011110110
goto matrix

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Use Color 0a first.

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@echo off
Color 0a
rem "He is the one..."
:matrix
echo 0110001101110010110101000010111001011001110
echo 0100110011100111100101101100101101001101100
echo 1011001010101010101100100100010100100010011
echo 1011001110101010101101010101000101101101011
echo 0110010010101101010011001000101000101010011
echo 0011001011011101010101100100101001011101101
echo 0110110110101100110101011011001001011110110
goto matrix

now it looks like the matrix, but wasnt the green a bit darker in the movie?

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Lol, I don't know....

I made a whole game in DOS a while ago but it's a big file so i won't post it here!

FB

now it looks like the matrix, but wasnt the green a bit darker in the movie?

Yeah, it was. In my opinion, I think the color 02 works better.

there we go looks more realistic now.

now all we need it to crack the matrix. 

@echo off
:matrix
color 02
echo 011000110111001011010100001011100101100 1110
echo 010011001110011110010110110010110100110 1100
echo 101100101010101010110010010001010010001 0011
echo 101100111010101010110101010100010110110 1011
echo 011001001010110101001100100010100010101 0011
echo 001100101101110101010110010010100101110 1101
echo 011011011010110011010101101100100101111 0110
goto matrix2
pause .nul
:matrix2
color 0a
echo 011000110111001011010100001011100101100 1110
echo 010011001110011110010110110010110100110 1100
echo 101100101010101010110010010001010010001 0011
echo 101100111010101010110101010100010110110 1011
echo 011001001010110101001100100010100010101 0011
echo 001100101101110101010110010010100101110 1101
echo 011011011010110011010101101100100101111 0110
goto matrix

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***sigh***