Command-Line Utilities and Equivalents

There are many command-line equivalents to console points-and-clicks, although not all administrative operations can be done from the command-line. The operations that do have command line equivalents can prove to be very useful for remote administration and automation. Points-and-clicks cannot easily be remotely executed, scheduled, or scripted, but commands certainly can. Commands can be issued from a TELNET session or RCMD session, can be scripted, and can be scheduled for execution as a batch operation. Most commands include built-in help text, which can be displayed by simply typing the command followed by "/?". Commands marked as "Local" below can only be issued from a session on the local machine (whether TELNET, RCMD, the Schedule service, or run from a locally executing script). Commands marked as "Remote" can be issued from a remote NT workstation or server without requiring an explicit local session on the target host, in addition to being locally executable. (In other words, "Remote" commands are both local and remote.)

Command	Local/Remote?	Description
AT	Remote	Add, delete, or list jobs registered with the NT Schedule service.
COMPACT	Local	Perform NTFS compression on listed files/folders.
COPY	Local	Copy files.
DEL	Local	Delete files.
DIR	Local	List files.
DUMPEL	Local	Dump the event logs to a text file.
EXPnn	Local	Start the line-mode ORACLE Export Utility, where nn is the version number.
FORFILES	Local	Run a console command on files matching provided criteria. Somewhat similar to the UNIX find command. (See the Downloads section for the most recent version.)
FTP	Local	Start an FTP session with a remote host.
IMPnn	Local	Start the line-mode ORACLE Import Utility, where nn is the version number.
IPCONFIG	Local	Show the IP addresses and bindings of the local host.
MAILTO	Local	Send mail. This is not a native command. Please see the Resources page for the download URL.
MONITOR	Remote	Install, configure, and start/stop the MONITOR service on a remote host.
MOVE	Local	Move files to a different location or name.
NET NAME	Local	Show the name of the local host.
NET START/STOP	Local	Show or start/stop local services.
NET USE	Local	Show or change file share mappings for the current session.
NETSVC	Remote	Show or start/stop remote services.
PLUSnn	Local	Start the line-mode SSQL*Plus app, where nn is the version number.
RCMD	Local	Start a console session on a remote host. (Requires the remote host to have the REMOTE COMMAND service installed and started.)
REN	Local	Rename files.
SHUTDOWN	Remote	Perform a shutdown of the host.
SOON	Remote	Schedule a job for batch execution in n seconds.
SQLLDRnn	Local	Start the line-mode ORACLE SQL*Loader utility, where nn is the version number.
SVRMGRnn	Local	Start the line-mode ORACLE Server Manager, where nn is the version number.
TELNET	Local	Start a TELNET session to a remote host.
WHOAMI	Local	Show the domain and username of the current session.