Batfiles

A simple set of unix-like and helpful macros for dealing with the Windows command prompt.

Features

• prompt updated with working git branch and status
• useful aliases for git and more
• download files from the command line
• 2 line prompt for readability
• base16 colour scheme for Windows Command Prompt

Requirements

• git
  Well, you're here, aren't you?
• Clink
  Brings Bash-style completion and history to the Windows command prompt

Setup

1. Clone this repo into your %USERPROFILE%/batfiles directory; git clone https://github.com/geoffstokes/batfiles.git %USERPROFILE%/batfiles
2. Run setup.bat from the batfiles directory.

Usage

• ~: Go to your user profile directory
• cd: Replaced with chdir /D, meaning it'll just change drives when you bloody ask it to
• clear: clear the screen
• fn: search recursively through the current directory and its subdirectories
• Git shortcuts
  • ga: git add
  • gb: Show all local and remote branches (git branch -av)
  • gbp: Show all unmerged branches, with their remote equivalents (if any. equivalent to git branch -avv --no-merged)
  • gc: git commit -v
  • gco: git checkout
  • gd: git diff
  • gdc: git diff --cached
  • gdh: git diff HEAD
  • gf: git fetch
  • gl: git log
  • gp: git push
  • gpl: git pull
  • gr: git remote -v
  • gs: git status
  • gu: git up
• ls: run dir in a vaguely unix-like way (and get a message from Steve)
• ntget: insanely simplistic file download utility (written in Powershell)
• source: reload the doskey macro file
• x: shortcut to exit

How

This uses doskey to set up macros by running it whenever a command prompt instance starts. Automatically running something on each command prompt load is achieved by setting the AutoRun key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor in the Registry.

These changes are per-user and can (and will) be expanded upon by adding commands (setting variables, etc) to cmd_profile.bat and/or adding aliases to doskey.mcr.

ntget is a (very) simple PowerShell script which is called from a doskey macro.

NOTE: A previous version changed your PowerShell ExecutionPolicy to RemoteSigned. This is no longer the case. To restore the default policy, you can run this command from cmd; powershell -Command "& {Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Restricted}"

The colours are overridden in the registry (and require you to have not customised them for any command prompt shortcut), and the improved prompt uses Clink.