Here are a few plugins I have created for Take Command; they may be downloaded freely. I make no warranty or guarantee of their correct operation.
| ISO8601 | Extends Take Command’s date-handling functions with new date formats; a larger, consistently enforced date range; and more consistent validity checking of input dates. Re-implements most date-related variable functions and adds several new ones, plus a few internal variables and commands. | 1.2.4 2012-03-05 |
| QCAL | A stripped-down version of the above plugin, containing only the QCAL command and a (very) few functions. | 1.2.4 2012-03-05 |
| SafeChars | Provides functions for reading and writing text which may contain characters having special meaning to TCC (“dangerous” characters.) | 1.6.6 2012-04-16 |
| HTMLDump | Dumps the console buffer to an HTML file. | 1.0.5 2011-12-14 |
| Chill | Schedules a command to be run later. | 1.1.0 2011-04-05 |
| PopInfo | Provides a quick way to check a file’s properties while composing a command line. When you press a hotkey, a popup message box will display the file’s size, attributes, date and time stamps, and a few other bits of information. | 1.0.3 2011-10-10 |
| Say | Speaks text from the command line, or from a file or pipe. | 1.0.7 2011-11-28 |
| Snapshot | Create and restore snapshots of the console screen buffer. This
is basically a more elaborate take on the SAVECON and
RSTRCON commands in Vincent Fatica's 4CONSOLE
plugin. |
1.0.1 2011-02-22 |
| Fortune | Returns a random line from a text file. Provisions are made for not repeating the last n lines retrieved, and for biasing the selection to make some lines more likely than others. | 1.1.3 2012-04-16 |
| HTags | Provides functions to create HTML tags and entities. | 0.60.3 2011-11-28 |
| PrinterStuff | Create, delete, and manage printers from within TCC (very beta) | 0.65.1 2012-03-16 |
| NumWords | This plugin implements several rather silly functions to convert integers to English text, or vice versa. Its actual usefulness is dubious; this was mainly a testbed for me to play with the TCmd plugin interface. | 0.53.4 2011-04-03 |
| RegTools | Work in progress, not feature-complete. Commands for working with the registry interactively at the command line; registry functions for use in batch files. | 0.52.0 2011-10-27 |
UIStuff | Miscellaneous user-interface features. Get and set the screen resolution for any monitor, the wallpaper image and style, the screen saver settings, and the master sound volume and mute state. Pin or unpin shortcuts to the Windows 7 taskbar or Start menu. | 0.57.1 2012-05-10 |
| MkVer | From an idea by Jim Millard. This plugin provides an easy way to “versionize” a filename by appending a number before the extension. The number will be incremented as needed to avoid colliding with existing filenames. | 0.92.2 2012-04-13 |
| Revisit | Provides a quick way to return to recently-used directories. | 0.91.0 2011-09-19 |
| FixNames | Renames files to remove troublesome characters. | 0.25.1 2012-04-25 |
| Sift | Finds the n largest, smallest, oldest, or newest files in a single directory or a directory tree, and sorts them into an array variable. Requires the full Take Command — TCC/LE does not support arrays. | 0.56.0 2012-02-25 |
Here is a batch file which I use to set up file associations, Explorer shell verbs, and so on for Take Command: RegTweaks.btm
Here are some miscellaneous command-line programs which can be used in either Take Command or CMD.EXE:
| Wrap | This program word-wraps English text to fit a specified width. It can be used as a filter reading from standard input, or it can read from one or more files specified on the command line. | 0.99.11 2012-05-03 |
| Xcode | This utility converts text files from one character-encoding scheme to another. It can be used as a filter reading from standard input, or it can read from one or more files specified on the command line. | 0.61.3 2012-05-03 |
| Words | Words is a command-line utility which counts words, sentences, and paragraphs in English text. | 0.99.3 2012-05-22 |