[ChuckDickerson]

Call me old school but I use the DOS command prompt within Windows just about everyday for something or other. Growing up on good old Unix and DOS command lines there are many file management operations I can just do faster or easier at a command line than in Windows Explorer, etc.

Have a directory of thousands of data files written and named automatically by date & time? Want to make a text file with a list of just the filenames of type XYZ that were written on day 10? Nothing beats a quick command line command:

C:\somedirectory>dir -b *10.XYZ > Filelist.txt

Have several text files you just want to concatinate into one big text file:

C:\somedirectory>copy file1.txt + file2.txt + file3.txt > Bigfile.txt

Command line operating systems may be old but are still very useful. Learn to use file redirection (>, <, |) and it will help you more than you can imagine.