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Aliasing functionality in the MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems is provided by the DOSKey command-line utility. An alias will last for the life of the shell session. Regularly used aliases can be set from the shell's rc file (such as .bashrc ) so that they will be available upon the start of the corresponding shell session.
The category Windows commands deals with articles related to internal and external commands supported by members of the Windows family of operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME as well as the NT family.
Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, [1] eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS [2] operating systems.
cmd.exe in Windows NT 2000, 4DOS, 4OS2, 4NT, and a number of third-party solutions allow direct entry of environment variables from the command prompt. From at least Windows 2000, the set command allows for the evaluation of strings into variables, thus providing inter alia a means of performing integer arithmetic.
Improved command line editing, including filename completion and command history; Support for command aliases, also in scripts; Enhanced wildcards and the ability to filter by file sizes, date and time stamps, and other file characteristics; Extended syntax for redirection and piping; Context-specific help; Colored directory listings
TCC is based on the earlier 4DOS command shell for DOS, and 4OS2 for OS/2. [4]Beginning with version 12 of 4NT, support for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000 were removed. Beginning with version 16 of TCC, support for Windows XP was removed, [1] although it might still run in XP. 4NT was renamed to Take Command Console as part of JP Software's Take Command versi
Windows: Alt key codes. The alt keys (there are two of them) are easy to find on any Windows device—there’s one on either side of the space bar. It’s easy to make any accent or symbol on a ...
On some systems, special tokens in the definition of the prompt can be used to cause external programs to be called by the command-line interpreter while displaying the prompt. In DOS' COMMAND.COM and in Windows NT's cmd.exe users can modify the prompt by issuing a PROMPT command or by directly changing the value of the corresponding %PROMPT ...