Windows command line Tricks for Better, Faster Administration

Windows CMD commands for life made easy for WebLogic, OFMW, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss Administrators. Windows shortcuts will shave our time more. Especially working on Windows 8.1 is more complex than previous so I pulled out some of the important commands which will make your life easy. Some of them are collected from the daily works in OFMW administrator. Mapping of SHELL command with CMD commands How to set the proxy in CMD? You need to run the following command in the CMD to set the proxy. set HTTP_PROXY=http://your_proxy:your_port set HTTPS_PROXY=https://your_proxy:your_port How to add a IP, DNS to your Windows hosts file? The Linux OS maintains /etc/hosts and it can be editable only by root user. Whereas, in Windows OS same file is available at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. This will be same for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. You could also check in the hot Windows 10. Hence the command to edit this : start notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ...