Batch Basics: Understanding the Windows Command Line, Part 0 (Introduction)

Mar 31, 2016 03:26 AM

Mar 31, 2016 11:57 AM

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Welcome, everyone!

While Linux distributions are almost always used for exploits, security, pentesting and other stuff covered in Null Byte, knowing the Windows Command Line (or Command Prompt) is a useful skill that can help you in various ways, such as using exploit programs made for Windows or using the command line on someone else's Windows computer.

Unfortunately, there are very few tutorials online that explain the Windows command line or instruct novices in the workings of the command line.

In this series, I will try to cover the basics of the Windows command line, such as:

Echoing and Looping
Making directories and files
Creating dummy files
Variables
Randomising
If Statements
Read/Write to files
Cecho (a Command Line extension)

...and much more!

Stay tuned!

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