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.
- 승리 + X 그때 C: Opens the Command Prompt app. It may not work in Windows 11 if it’s defaulted to 윈도우 터미널. 당신은 또한 사용할 수 있습니다 승리 + R, 다음을 입력하십시오. cmd를 키를 누릅니다 엔터 버튼.
- 승리 + C 그때 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 다른 + 입력 : Use to switch Command Prompt between full screen and windowed mode.
- Ctrl 키 + 변화 + 을 더한 (+) and Ctrl 키 + 변화 + 마이너스 (-): Increase or decrease the opacity of the Command Prompt. Ctrl 키 + 변화 + 마우스 스크롤 휠 똑같은 일을합니다.
- 승리 + 화살표 키: Maximize, minimize, and move the Command Prompt around the screen.
- 다른 + Mouse Scroll Wheel: Zooms in and out on the Command Prompt, making the text larger or smaller.
- 다른 + F4 : Quickly closes the 명령 프롬프트.
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 키보드 바로 가기 in other Windows 10 or 11 apps, like 뛰어나다 또는 말씀.
- Ctrl 키 + M: Switches the cursor to Mark Mode, which lets you select text with the mouse. To exit Mark Mode, press 야후!. 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.
- 홈 or 종료 : Home moves the cursor to the start of the command line while End moves it to the end.
- 변화 + 홈 or 변화 + 끝: 시프트 + 홈 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. 변화 + 종료 selects all text from the cursor to the end.
- 변화 + 오른쪽 화살표 or 왼쪽 화살표: Increase the current selection by a character to the right or left.
- Ctrl 키 + 변화 + 오른쪽 화살표 or 왼쪽 화살표: 사용법 - Ctrl 키 + 변화 key combo with the right and left arrow keys will select the entire word to the right or left of the cursor.
- Up or 아래쪽 화살표: 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 키 + Up or 아래쪽 화살표: Moves the page up or down one line at a time. This is useful to scroll through a large amount of text slowly.
- 페이지 위로 or 페이지다운: When in Mark Mode, the 페이지 위로 와 페이지 아래로 keys will move the cursor a page at a time in their respective directions.
- 변화 + 페이지 위로 or 페이지 Dn: Select text from the cursor to include a whole page up or down.
- Ctrl 키 + A: The first press selects all text in the current line. An immediate second press selects all text in the command prompt window.
- Ctrl 키 + C or Ctrl 키 + 삽입 : Both will copy the text currently selected. If you use Ctrl 키 + C and no text is selected, it will interrupt a running command if there is one.
- Ctrl 키 + 역행 키이: Just as backspace deletes the character to the left of the cursor, Ctrl + 백 스페이스 deletes the entire word to the left of the cursor.
- Ctrl 키 + 홈 or Ctrl 키 + 종료 : Deletes all text from the cursor to the start or end of the current line, respectively.
- Ctrl 키 + 변화 + 홈 or Ctrl 키 + 변화 + 종료 : 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, 그리고 Ctrl 키 + 변화 + 종료 was pressed, selecting everything to the end of the window.
- Esc : Deletes the entire line or escapes Mark Mode if you’re in it.
- 삽입 : Changes between insert modes to either insert text or overwrite the text.
- Ctrl 키 + F: 엽니 다 Find 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: 위로 (^) moves you back through the previous commands in the command history, and down (˅) moves you forward.
- 오른쪽 화살표: Enters the most recent command letter by letter. If driverquery was the last command executed, pressing the right arrow types d, pressing again types r등
- F2 : Copies text up to the first instance of the character typed when the 복사할 char 입력: dialog is open, in the last command executed. For example, if the last command used was ipconfig를 / 모두, you enter F2 및 유형 /, ipconfig를 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: 대화 상자가 열립니다.
- 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 엔터 버튼 to execute the command that’s highlighted.
- 다른 + F7 : Clears the command history. Use 다른 + 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 ipconfig를 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 를 열려면 Enter command number: dialog and then type 17 들어가기 diskpart를.
- 탭 : 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 탭 was pressed once, giving us C:$Recycle.Bin.
- Ctrl 키 + V or 변화 + 삽입 : Pastes last text copied to the clipboard. In the image below, you can see that it’ll be ipconfig를 / 모두 인사말 클립 보드 history window.
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