In computing, format is a command-line utility that carries out disk formatting. It is a component of various operating systems, including 86-DOS, MS-DOS...

the OS. format command: Under MS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows, disk formatting can be performed by the format command. The format program usually...

destroying any existing contents FORMAT (command), a command-line utility to format disks in many computer operating systems Format (Common Lisp), a programming...

and later POSIX.1-2001, and became a format supported by most modern file archiving utilities. The tar command was abandoned in POSIX.1-2001 in favor...

other calculations to build formatting descriptions. In this example, the format is specified on line 601, and the PRINT command refers to it by line number:...

This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files. Archive formats are used for backups, mobility, and archiving...

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with software via commands – each formatted as a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged...

a user field inserts itself before the command. It is generally set to 'root'. In some uses of the cron format there is also a seconds field at the beginning...

Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images...

IEEE defined a new pax format which is basically tar with additional extended attributes. The format is not supported by pax commands in most Linux distributions...

This is normally done before sending a mode set command. Systems Network Architecture defined one format for the information field, in which the most significant...

software portal Comparison of file archivers Free file format List of archive formats List of Unix commands Libarc Brotli zlib Jim Meyering (9 April 2025). "gzip-1...

Rich Text file called TXT.rtf that contains Rich Text formatting commands, as well as commands for including images or other attachments contained within...

Several programs can unpack the file format. RARLAB distributes the C++ source code and binaries for a command-line unrar program. The license permits...

used by undelete. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 5 and later. MS-DOS version 5 introduced the quick format option (Format /Q) which removes the...

returns a check condition in response to a command, the initiator usually then issues a SCSI Request Sense command. This process is part of a SCSI protocol...

arbitrary locations using the %n format token, which commands printf() and similar functions to write the number of bytes formatted to an address stored on the...

Telemetric and Command Exchange) is an XML based data exchange format for spacecraft telemetry and command meta-data. Using XTCE the format and content of...

Windows 2000, where it figures as 20.8 MB drive format option in the FORMAT command options. The FORMAT command in Windows XP and newer lacks support of the...

graphics formats are used and defined by the Netpbm project: portable bitmap format (PBM) portable graymap format (PGM) portable pixmap format (PPM) are...

of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name or...

creates formatted output when given plain text mixed with formatting commands. It is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters, which...

of file formats Magic number (programming) Substitute character (for the 1Ah (^Z) "end-of-file" marker used in many signatures) file (command) "execve(2):...

and because the plain TeX formatting commands are elementary, it provides authors with ready-made commands for formatting and layout requirements such...

Cabinet (or CAB) is an archive-file format for Microsoft Windows that supports lossless data compression and embedded digital certificates used for maintaining...

text-based user interface (TUI). List of disk partitioning software format (command) GUID Partition Table "fdisk(8) — PC slice table (MBR) maintenance...

decoding from the AMF format. The format is often used in conjunction with Adobe's RTMP to establish connections and control commands for the delivery of...

as a file format when the IBM PC was introduced. It was also in general use on the Apple II in the same time period. Although the commands were available...

(format detection)". GitHub. Retrieved 10 February 2020. "ar". GNU Binary Utilities. The Wikibook Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of: Commands ar: create...

LaTeX's \cite or \nocite commands), and creates as output a .bbl file containing these entries together with the formatting commands specified by the .bst...