= Windows cmd.exe shell tips for productivity
Yuri Slobodyanyuk <admin@yurisk.info>
v1.0, 2023-03-07
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Author: Yuri Slobodyanyuk, https://www.linkedin.com/in/yurislobodyanyuk/

== doskey

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|Command
|Description

|Up Arrow
|Recall previous command.

|Down Arrow
|Recall next command

|Page Up
|Recall the 1st/oldest command in the current session.

|Page Down
|Recall the most recent command in this session.

|Ctrl + Left Arrow
|Move cursor back one word.

|Ctrl + Right Arrow
|Move cursor right one word.

|Home
|Move cursor to the beginning of the line.

|End
|Move cursor to the end of the line.

|Esc
|Clear the command from the display.

|Right Click on title -> Properties -> Options -> Buffer size
|Increase/decrease the commands history buffer size. Note: `doskey
/listsize=<n>` stopped working on Windows 10 somewhere in 2021. 

|*doskey /history*
|Show all commands in the buffer.

|*doskey _macroName_ = _command to run_*
|Record a macro for this session. E.g. to save some typing: 
`doskey ro = route print`, now we can use `ro` to run `route print`. 
The macros are not saved, and disappear after closing the cmd.exe, 
unless saved in a batch file.

|*doskey /macros*
|Show all macros defined for this session.


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== References
* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/doskey