If you are a system administrator, IT professional, or a power user it is common to find yourself using the command prompt to perform administrative tasks in Windows. Whether it be copying files, ...

I tend to have deep directory paths that I work inside, so my solution to this is to use the PROMPT_COMMAND feature of bash and generate my prompt on the fly. I use a small perl script.

Before Windows was created, the most common operating system that ran on IBM PC compatibles was DOS. DOS stands for Disk Operating System and was what you would use if you had started your computer ...