I'm working a lot with ruby on rails and mysql lately, so I'm using the command line window a lot as well. Clicking Start»Run etc. to open a command line window and then navigating via DOS to each of your working directories is just too much sometimes, many times. If only there were a way to open a command window by right clicking a Windows Explorer folder ... Well, of course there is plus some other neat tools to help with images and syncing directories, to name just a few.

UPDATED. Added mv (move) command to this growing but brief list of common Linux commands used in Web development. It is mainly a place for me to document the common commands I use, instead of having to look them up. If I go a few months without needing to log into Linux, I tend to forget a few of these. Use this cheatsheet for the most common command line tasks in Unix/Linux, including commands for working with files and directories, and common vi commands.