• cmd.exe, a.k.a. Command Prompt, is a shell program on later versions of Windows (NT and CE families), OS/2,, eComStation, ArcaOS, and ReactOS. In some...
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  • DOS, OS/2 and Windows command-line interpreters such as COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE, an environment variable is retrieved by placing a % sign before and after...
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  • Batch file (redirect from CMD (file format))
    them. When a batch file is run, the shell program (usually COMMAND.COM or cmd.exe) reads the file and executes its commands, normally line-by-line. Unix-like...
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    etc.), CP/M's CCP, DOS' COMMAND.COM, as well as the OS/2 and the Windows CMD.EXE programs, the latter groups being based heavily on DEC's RSX-11 and RSTS...
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    Help (command) (redirect from HELP.EXE)
    help is a command in various command line shells such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, Bash, qshell, 4DOS/4NT, Windows PowerShell, Singularity shell, Python...
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  • 4DOS (redirect from 4HELP.EXE)
    number of enhancements. 4OS2 and 4NT are similar products that replace cmd.exe in OS/2 and Windows NT respectively. 4DOS is most often used as a command-line...
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    COMMAND.COM (redirect from Command.exe)
    [citation needed] COMMAND.COM's successor on OS/2 and Windows NT systems is cmd.exe, although COMMAND.COM is available in virtual DOS machines on IA-32 versions...
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  • CP/K and K8918-OS, CMD is the filename extension used by CP/M-style executable programs. It corresponds to COM in CP/M-80 and EXE in DOS. The same extension...
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    (Windows NT stream and third-party derivatives like 4NT—article is at cmd.exe), and mainframe operating systems are associated with a number of terms...
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    Windows Console (redirect from Conhost.exe)
    to it by conagent.exe running in a DOS VM that are also used for real DOS applications by hooking the keyboard interrupt. conagent.exe then calls Vcond...
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    is included in command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, 4OS2 and 4NT. The command is also available in the Motorola VERSAdos...
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    DOSKEY (redirect from DOSKEY.EXE)
    macro functionality, and improved editing features to the COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe command-line interpreter shells. The command was included as a...
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  • executable files, shared and dynamically linked libraries CMD file (CP/M) Windows Installer files (msi) ".EXE File Extension". FileInfo - The File Extensions Database...
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  • Other DOS variants as well as the legacy Windows shell, Command Prompt (cmd.exe), provide many of these commands. Many other DOS variants are informally...
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    Start (command) (redirect from Start.exe)
    of the IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS command-line interpreter cmd.exe (and some versions of COMMAND.COM) to start programs or batch files or...
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  • default shell in Windows 9x, available in 32-bit NT-based Windows via NTVDM cmd.exe, successor of COMMAND.COM in OS/2 and Windows NT systems, a.k.a. Command...
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  • directory names only. cmd.exe /F:ON enables file and directory name completion characters (^F and ^D by default). Use cmd.exe /? for more information...
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  • SaxBasic, BasicScript, KiXtart, awk, bash, csh and other Unix shells, 4NT, cmd.exe (the Windows NT shell), Windows PowerShell, DCL, C, C++, Fortran and others...
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    Ver (command) (redirect from Winver.exe)
    command in various command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe and 4DOS/4NT. It prints the name and version of the operating system, the...
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  • Permitting cmd.exe to execute would be an error caused by a failure to canonicalize the filename to the simplest representation, C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe, and...
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    0 onwards. It is loaded by default in the command line host "powershell.exe" since v5.0. Take Command Console (TCC) offers syntax highlighting in the...
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  • interpreter, which is by default COMMAND.COM in DOS, Windows 95, 98, and ME or CMD.EXE in OS/2 and Windows NT. The variable name is written in all-uppercase under...
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    through OS2SS.EXE and OS2.EXE, and DOSCALLS.DLL. OS2.EXE is a version of the OS/2 shell (CMD.EXE), which passes commands down to the OS2SS.EXE, and input-output...
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  • shells, as well as in the Microsoft Windows command line interpreters cmd.exe and Windows PowerShell, the working directory can be changed by using the...
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  • Windows PowerShell. In comparison, however, few filters are built into cmd.exe (the original command-line interface of Windows), most of which have significant...
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    syntax defined as stated above without any additions. COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe have most of the common syntax with some limitations: There is no […] and...
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  • executable program. The ftype command was introduced as a shell builtin to cmd.exe with the release of Windows NT 4.0. It lists all Registry keys in HKEY...
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  • NTLDR (redirect from OSLOADER.EXE)
    (/SAFEBOOT:MINIMAL(ALTERNATESHELL) /SOS /BOOTLOG /NOGUIBOOT) – Default mode, except that Cmd.exe starts instead of Windows Explorer. Windows in Directory Services Restore...
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  • format. In Windows NT-based operating systems, the command prompt applet (cmd.exe) accepts long filenames with wildcard characters (question mark ? and asterisk...
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  • March 2013. "cabextract". "[Undocumented] [Bugs] Expand.exe (more about it) (Page 1) / Windows CMD Shell / SS64 Forum". ss64.org. Retrieved 21 April 2018...
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