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.
- Победити + X онда C: Opens the Command Prompt app. It may not work in Windows 11 if it’s defaulted to Виндовс Терминал. Такође можете користити Победити + R, затим укуцајте cMD и притисните унети.
- Победити + C онда 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.
- ФКСНУМКС or други + Ентер: Use to switch Command Prompt between full screen and windowed mode.
- Цтрл + смена + додатак (+) и Цтрл + смена + Минус (-): Increase or decrease the opacity of the Command Prompt. Цтрл + смена + точкић за померање миша ради исту ствар.
- Победити + Стрелице: Maximize, minimize, and move the Command Prompt around the screen.
- други + Mouse Scroll Wheel: Zooms in and out on the Command Prompt, making the text larger or smaller.
- други + ФКСНУМКС: Quickly closes the командној линији.
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 пречице на тастатури in other Windows 10 or 11 apps, like екцел or Word.
- Цтрл + M: Switches the cursor to Mark Mode, which lets you select text with the mouse. To exit Mark Mode, press Есц. 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.
- Početna or Крај: Home moves the cursor to the start of the command line while End moves it to the end.
- смена + Početna or смена + Крај: Схифт + Početna 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. смена + Крај selects all text from the cursor to the end.
- смена + Стрелица удесно or Лева стрелица: Increase the current selection by a character to the right or left.
- Цтрл + смена + Стрелица удесно or Лева стрелица: Коришћење Цтрл + смена key combo with the right and left arrow keys will select the entire word to the right or left of the cursor.
- Up or Стрелица надоле: 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.
- Цтрл + Up or Стрелица надоле: Moves the page up or down one line at a time. This is useful to scroll through a large amount of text slowly.
- Пг Уп or ПгДовн: When in Mark Mode, the Паге Уп Паге Довн keys will move the cursor a page at a time in their respective directions.
- смена + Пг Уп or Пг Дн: Select text from the cursor to include a whole page up or down.
- Цтрл + A: The first press selects all text in the current line. An immediate second press selects all text in the command prompt window.
- Цтрл + C or Цтрл + Инсерт: Both will copy the text currently selected. If you use Цтрл + C and no text is selected, it will interrupt a running command if there is one.
- Цтрл + бацкспаце: Just as backspace deletes the character to the left of the cursor, Цтрл + Бацкспаце deletes the entire word to the left of the cursor.
- Цтрл + Početna or Цтрл + Крај: Deletes all text from the cursor to the start or end of the current line, respectively.
- Цтрл + смена + Početna or Цтрл + смена + Крај: 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, и онда Цтрл + смена + Крај was pressed, selecting everything to the end of the window.
- Изаћи: Deletes the entire line or escapes Mark Mode if you’re in it.
- Инсерт: Changes between insert modes to either insert text or overwrite the text.
- Цтрл + F: Отвара Наћи 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: горе (^) moves you back through the previous commands in the command history, and down (˅) moves you forward.
- Right Arrow: Enters the most recent command letter by letter. If дриверкуери was the last command executed, pressing the right arrow types d, pressing again types r, Итд
- ФКСНУМКС: Copies text up to the first instance of the character typed when the Унесите цхар да бисте копирали до: dialog is open, in the last command executed. For example, if the last command used was ипцонфиг / алл, you enter F2 и тип /, ипцонфиг will appear at the command prompt.
- ФКСНУМКС: Recalls the last command from the command history.
- ФКСНУМКС: Deletes text up to the first instance of the character typed when the Enter char to delete up to: dialog opens.
- ФКСНУМКС: Works similarly to the up arrow, only going backward in the command history, one command at a time.
- ФКСНУМКС: Opens the command history, and you can use the up and down arrows to move through the list. Then press унети to execute the command that’s highlighted.
- други + ФКСНУМКС: Clears the command history. Use други + F7 and then try just ФКСНУМКС, and the command history doesn’t even open because there’s nothing in it.
- ФКСНУМКС: Recalls commands from the command history which begin with the text already entered. In this example, F8 would scroll back through any previous ипцонфиг commands used.
- ФКСНУМКС: 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 да отворите Enter command number: dialog and then type 17 ући дискпарт.
- Таб: 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 Табулатор was pressed once, giving us C:$Recycle.Bin.
- Цтрл + V or смена + Инсерт: Pastes last text copied to the clipboard. In the image below, you can see that it’ll be ипцонфиг / алл из Остава 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 Mac shortcuts па чак и Linux keyboard shortcuts. We even show you how to create keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office виндовс. What are your favorite shortcut key combos?