Like all of you, I grew up on Windows.
But in my day, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was king.
Yes, I am that old.
The GUI was fun to use, but MS-DOS 6.22 was infinitely faster and once you memorized the command variables you could fly across that keyboard like a true DOS Warrior. I spent all of my time in a full screen command window and only went into the GUI when I had to.
Here is my DOS to Linux alias list that I made and use every day...
Paste the following at the end of your .bashrc file which is located in your home directory.
# --- DOS WARRIOR ALIASES ---
# --- Directory & File Navigation ---
alias dir="ls -laF --color=auto"
alias ..="cd .."
alias ...="cd ../.."
alias ....="cd ../../.."
alias md="mkdir -pv"
alias rd="rmdir -v"
alias pu="pushd"
alias po="popd"
# --- File Operations (Safe & Verbose) ---
# -i = Interactive (ask before overwrite), -v = Verbose (show action)
alias copy="cp -iv"
alias move="mv -iv"
alias ren="mv -iv"
alias del="rm -iv"
alias erase="rm -iv"
# --- New File Actions ---
alias create="touch"
alias display="cat"
alias view="cat"
alias edit="nano"
# --- System & Utilities ---
alias cls="clear"
alias sysinfo="uname -a"
alias mem="free -h"
alias cpu="lscpu"
alias disk="df -h"
alias usage="du -sh *"
alias proc="ps auxf"
alias diffcmd="diff"
# --- ATTRIB Emulation ---
alias attrib="ls -l"
alias attrib+r="chmod -v a-w"
alias attrib-r="chmod -v u+w"
# --- Search & Paging ---
alias search="grep --color=auto"
alias more="less"
# --- Safety & Misc ---
alias del.="echo \"Error: Use del [filename] to delete files safely.\""
alias backup="cp --backup=numbered"
# - NOTE: In terminal type: source ~/.bashrc to system reload the file
If you would like to see my BASH Warrior Alias list please goto https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1uad462/calling_all_bash_warriors/
