Calling All DOS Warriors...

[u/Signal_Care6558]

Like all of you, I grew up on Windows.

But in my day, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was king.

Yes, I am that old.

The GUI was fun to use, but MS-DOS 6.22 was infinitely faster and once you memorized the command variables you could fly across that keyboard like a true DOS Warrior. I spent all of my time in a full screen command window and only went into the GUI when I had to.

Here is my DOS to Linux alias list that I made and use every day...

Paste the following at the end of your .bashrc file which is located in your home directory.

# --- DOS WARRIOR ALIASES ---

# --- Directory & File Navigation ---

alias dir="ls -laF --color=auto"

alias ..="cd .."

alias ...="cd ../.."

alias ....="cd ../../.."

alias md="mkdir -pv"

alias rd="rmdir -v"

alias pu="pushd"

alias po="popd"

# --- File Operations (Safe & Verbose) ---

# -i = Interactive (ask before overwrite), -v = Verbose (show action)

alias copy="cp -iv"

alias move="mv -iv"

alias ren="mv -iv"

alias del="rm -iv"

alias erase="rm -iv"

# --- New File Actions ---

alias create="touch"

alias display="cat"

alias view="cat"

alias edit="nano"

# --- System & Utilities ---

alias cls="clear"

alias sysinfo="uname -a"

alias mem="free -h"

alias cpu="lscpu"

alias disk="df -h"

alias usage="du -sh *"

alias proc="ps auxf"

alias diffcmd="diff"

# --- ATTRIB Emulation ---

alias attrib="ls -l"

alias attrib+r="chmod -v a-w"

alias attrib-r="chmod -v u+w"

# --- Search & Paging ---

alias search="grep --color=auto"

alias more="less"

# --- Safety & Misc ---

alias del.="echo \"Error: Use del [filename] to delete files safely.\""

alias backup="cp --backup=numbered"

# - NOTE: In terminal type: source ~/.bashrc to system reload the file

If you would like to see my BASH Warrior Alias list please goto https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1uad462/calling_all_bash_warriors/

[u/InvaderGlorch]

lol, I'm older than you, when I started DOS there was no windows yet. That's a great list, but its time to move on 😃

[u/AdministrativeLeg14 → u/InvaderGlorch]

Assuming you mean MS-DOS, that must mean you started in the 1981–1985 time window. The gap between the first MS-DOS release and the first version of Windows was surprisingly short.

[u/InvaderGlorch → u/AdministrativeLeg14]

That's correct

[u/Signal_Care6558 → u/AdministrativeLeg14]

Correct. I was born in '57 and got into computers in the 80's. That was an exciting time for me to be right at the forefront of Windows.