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When my dad first put me in front of a computer when I was very young, he showed me this wonderful MS-DOS command - "h".
Used as an alternative to "dir", "h" listed the contents of a directory, but automatically put everything in paginated columns (a la "dir /w /p"), and colour-coded every item. From memory I believe .exe & .com files were cyan, subdirectories were violet, etc. It made it so much easier to quickly find what you were looking for.
I'd really like to get this command running in a CMD prompt in Windows 10. Does anyone know the actual name of the "h" command, or where I could download it? I've tried numerous Google searches which have yielded nothing - all I have to go on is the letter H!
Must be before my time but maybe he really showed you Linux and had an alias setup or something? When he first put you in front of a computer, how old were you? I know Linux terminal can shot directory listing in color coded scheme and you can customize as well. I look forward to hearing what this may be you refer to here though. I assume you're not talking about Linux
ls -h
by the way. – Pimp Juice IT – 2018-02-27T05:52:13.467Nope. Your dad wrote a batch program, that he called
h.bat
that contained commands (prolly including:dir /w /p
). I don't know how the color coding was done, but I bet it was a third party program – mcalex – 2018-02-27T05:55:14.540Definitely wasn't Linux, and definitely wasn't a batch program - it was h.exe or h.com. I would have first seen it when I was maybe 8yo, and used it myself in MS-DOS daily for years. It also gave additional info that "dir /w /p" doesn't provide, so it wasn't just a simple colour coding thing. Wish I could find a screenshot somewhere! – Gareth Jones – 2018-02-27T06:19:39.973
2You might also be interested in our sister site, [retrocomputing.se] – Bob – 2018-02-27T07:25:08.263