I’m far from a command line wizard, but am gradually picking up more tricks and tips as time goes by. I recently found a styling bug I was confident I’d introduced in the previous few commits, but I wasn’t sure which one. In the past I’ve used git bi...
I’ve recently been given access to Claude Code at work, so I’ve been trying it out to see how I get on with it. I tend to run it from a Windows Command Prompt, and I’ve noticed that it keeps creating files named nul with 0KB size. Worse, when I try t...
I recently wanted to know the length of the longest file path within my codebase. Someone was struggling to pull the code to their local machine, and I found that Windows has a 256-character limit for a file path. Well, sort of. It turns out you can ...
I recently had a scenario where I'd run a moderately complex series of commands in the windows command prompt, and I wanted to keep a record of exactly what I'd done so that I could repeat it in the future if necessary. Happily, there is a command wh...
I recently needed to create a C# class for each file in a folder. This was a one-off job, but there were a large number of files in the folder. How would you approach doing this? I used the command line to list the files, using the dir command. I pip...
