dos and lin command line

rootyard · 07-30-2004, 06:08 PM

For both win32 and Linux environment I am looking for command line tools to write some scripts with regarding hardware resources. Generally Linux isnt a problem as these are well known or at least easily accessible, however, I am interested in knowing if there are any DOS commands that can be used to find disk space, cpu usage, memory usage, processor queue lengths, paging per second... etc. Is anyone aware of any commands that can be used at the command line in windows for this?

BajaNick · 07-30-2004, 07:49 PM

Theres lots. Heres a link:
http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

wapcaplet · 07-30-2004, 08:10 PM

I've always found the DOS command-line tools to be rather poor; you can get Cygwin (free), which provides a lot of the usual *nix tools.

twilli227 · 07-31-2004, 06:41 PM

Found this on another forum I frequent. Just burn it to cd or usb drive and take it with you, no installation required:

http://jlb.twu.net/code/unixkit.php

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* Free
* Built from Unix programs already ported to Windows by coders around the Web
* Very small (the -tiny branch is only ~6MB!)
* A great tool to have on your USB keychain drive
* Downright sick and wrong!

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The -tiny branch presently includes:
arc arj bash bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover cat chmod cksum cp csplit cut dd df diff du file find fmt fold funzip grep gunzip gzip head join less ln ls md5sum mkdir more mv nano nl paste patch pico pr rm rmdir sed sort split stat tac tail tar touch tr tsort uniq unrar unzip uudecode uuencode vi wc wget zip zsh

rootyard · 08-01-2004, 10:16 AM

twili: thanks for the help... i should have stressed perhaps that I am looking for command line tools that will clue one to hardware resources like cpu usage, memory usage, processor queue lengths, disk usage etc... of course, linux provides all of these... i'm wondering though, if there are any for DOS. A cygwin environment is unacceptable at the moment (although at another job, i was able to set it up and use some commands that win32 just DONT have like tail et al). Anyways, thanks for the help!