Keyboard shortcuts can save you a lot of time, and they can reduce the chance of repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) like carpal tunnel syndrome. So let’s check out the best keyboard shortcuts for the Windows Command Prompt.
Keyboard Shortcuts for the Command Prompt Console
These are shortcuts that help you control the actual window that you’ll use for your command line dialog.
- Νίκη + X τότε C: Opens the Command Prompt app. It may not work in Windows 11 if it’s defaulted to Τερματικό Windows. Μπορείτε επίσης να χρησιμοποιήσετε Νίκη + R, στη συνέχεια πληκτρολογήστε cmd και πατήστε το πλήκτρο εισάγετε.
- Νίκη + C τότε A: Opens the Command Prompt app with administrator rights. This requires administrator credentials, of course. It may not work in Windows 11 if it’s defaulted to Windows Terminal, then that keyboard combo will open Windows Terminal with administrator rights.
- F11 or άλλος + Enter: Use to switch Command Prompt between full screen and windowed mode.
- Ctrl + αλλαγή + πρόσθεση (+) Και Ctrl + αλλαγή + Μείον (-): Increase or decrease the opacity of the Command Prompt. Ctrl + αλλαγή + τροχό κύλισης του ποντικιού κάνει το ίδιο πράγμα.
- Νίκη + Πληκτρα ΒΕΛΟΥΣ: Maximize, minimize, and move the Command Prompt around the screen.
- άλλος + Mouse Scroll Wheel: Zooms in and out on the Command Prompt, making the text larger or smaller.
- άλλος + F4: Quickly closes the Γραμμή εντολών.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Cursor and Text Control in the Command Prompt
The keyboard shortcuts to select or manipulate text and move the cursor around without a mouse are much the same as the text συντομεύσεις πληκτρολογίου in other Windows 10 or 11 apps, like Excel ή Word.
- Ctrl + M: Switches the cursor to Mark Mode, which lets you select text with the mouse. To exit Mark Mode, press Esc. To tell if you’re in Mark Mode or not, look at the title bar of the Command Prompt window and the cursor. If it says Mark in the title or the cursor is a solid upright rectangle, you’re in Mark Mode.
- Αρχική or Λήξη: Home moves the cursor to the start of the command line while End moves it to the end.
- αλλαγή + Αρχική or αλλαγή + Τέλος: Μετατόπιση + Αρχική selects all text from where the cursor is to the beginning of the command line. If the cursor is already at the beginning, it will select the prompt itself. αλλαγή + Τέλος selects all text from the cursor to the end.
- αλλαγή + Δεξί βέλος or Αριστερό βέλος: Increase the current selection by a character to the right or left.
- Ctrl + αλλαγή + Δεξί βέλος or Αριστερό βέλος: Χρήση του Ctrl + αλλαγή key combo with the right and left arrow keys will select the entire word to the right or left of the cursor.
- Up or Κάτω βελάκι: In Mark Mode, the up arrow moves the cursor up, and the down arrow moves it down a line per press. When not in Mark Mode, it cycles through recently entered commands.
- Ctrl + Up or Κάτω βελάκι: Moves the page up or down one line at a time. This is useful to scroll through a large amount of text slowly.
- Πάνω or PgDown: When in Mark Mode, the Page Up και Page Down keys will move the cursor a page at a time in their respective directions.
- αλλαγή + Πάνω or PgDn: Select text from the cursor to include a whole page up or down.
- Ctrl + A: The first press selects all text in the current line. An immediate second press selects all text in the command prompt window.
- Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Εισάγετε: Both will copy the text currently selected. If you use Ctrl + C and no text is selected, it will interrupt a running command if there is one.
- Ctrl + backspace: Just as backspace deletes the character to the left of the cursor, Ctrl+Backspace deletes the entire word to the left of the cursor.
- Ctrl + Αρχική or Ctrl + Λήξη: Deletes all text from the cursor to the start or end of the current line, respectively.
- Ctrl + αλλαγή + Αρχική or Ctrl + αλλαγή + Λήξη: Selects all text from the cursor to the top or bottom of the Command Prompt. In the image below, the cursor was at the start of the ipconfig /allcompartments, και στη συνέχεια Ctrl + αλλαγή + Τέλος was pressed, selecting everything to the end of the window.
- Esc: Deletes the entire line or escapes Mark Mode if you’re in it.
- Εισάγετε: Changes between insert modes to either insert text or overwrite the text.
- Ctrl + F: Ανοίγει το Εύρεση dialog to help search through text. You can change the parameters to match the case and search up or down through the command prompt.
Keyboard Shortcuts to Use with Commands
Typing every character or repeatedly typing the same commands is a huge time drain. Fortunately, Microsoft includes many Command Prompt keyboard shortcuts to help enter commands quickly.
- Up or Down Arrows: Πάνω (^) moves you back through the previous commands in the command history, and down (˅) moves you forward.
- Δεξί βέλος: Enters the most recent command letter by letter. If driverquery was the last command executed, pressing the right arrow types d, pressing again types rΚ.λπ.
- F2: Copies text up to the first instance of the character typed when the Εισαγάγετε χαρακτήρα για αντιγραφή έως: dialog is open, in the last command executed. For example, if the last command used was ipconfig / all, πέρασε F2 και τον τύπο /, ipconfig will appear at the command prompt.
- F3: Recalls the last command from the command history.
- F4: Deletes text up to the first instance of the character typed when the Enter char to delete up to: ανοίγει ο διάλογος.
- F5: Works similarly to the up arrow, only going backward in the command history, one command at a time.
- F7: Opens the command history, and you can use the up and down arrows to move through the list. Then press εισάγετε to execute the command that’s highlighted.
- άλλος + F7: Clears the command history. Use άλλος + F7 and then try just F7, and the command history doesn’t even open because there’s nothing in it.
- F8: Recalls commands from the command history which begin with the text already entered. In this example, F8 would scroll back through any previous ipconfig commands used.
- F9: Re-types a command from the command history based on its number, as shown when using F7. In the example shown above for F7, you’d press F9 για να ανοίξετε το Enter command number: dialog and then type 17 μπαίνω diskpart.
- Αυτί: Cycles through folders under the directory in the current command to autocomplete it with the one you stop on. In the example below, C: was typed in, then Tab was pressed once, giving us C:$Recycle.Bin.
- Ctrl + V or αλλαγή + Εισάγετε: Pastes last text copied to the clipboard. In the image below, you can see that it’ll be ipconfig / all από το πρόχειρο history window.
You’re in Command of the Windows Command Prompt Now
Maybe you’ve used some command-line features in the past, and you’re handy with the proper syntax. Perhaps you’ve even written some batch files. Now you’ve got the shortcuts to look like a wizard. Not a Microsoft operating system person?
That’s alright—we’ve got Συντομεύσεις Mac και ακόμη Linux keyboard shortcuts. We even show you how to create keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office και Windows. What are your favorite shortcut key combos?