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Command-line completion allows the user to type the first few characters of a command, program, or filename, and press a completion key (normally Tab ↹) to fill in the rest of the item. The user then presses Return or ↵ Enter to run the command or open the file.
/F:file Reads file list from the specified file(/ stands for console). /C:string Uses specified string as a literal search string. /G:file Gets search strings from the specified file(/ stands for console). /D:dir Search a semicolon delimited list of directories; Note: Following command displays the detailed help about this command: FINDSTR /?
PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language.Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. [5]
Autocomplete command/file name Tab ↹ (enabled by default in Windows XP and later) Tab ↹: Tab ↹ (usually once) Esc (usually twice) Paste contents of clipboard at cursor: Alt+Space then E [notes 10] then P: Ctrl+V: ⇧ Shift+Ins: Scroll window up ⇧ Shift+PageUp (may not work in some versions of Windows XP) PageUp: ⇧ Shift+PageUp: Scroll ...
The command is also available in the Command Processor Shell of Windows Embedded CE [6] and in the Take Command Console. [7] Although the OS/2 command shell is closely related to the Windows Command Prompt, the title command is not available in the OS/2 version of cmd.exe. The default title of the OS/2 shell window is "OS/2 Window".
The help switch "/?" defines it as a "Reserved command name". It is available in MS-DOS version 5.00 and later, including the DOS 7 and 8 in Windows 95/98/ME. The C library function realpath performs this function. The Microsoft Windows NT command processors do not support this command, including the versions of command.com for NT.
DR DOS 6.0 [11] and Datalight ROM-DOS [12] include an implementation of the find command. The FreeDOS version was developed by Jim Hall and is licensed under the GPL. [13] The Unix command find performs an entirely different function, analogous to forfiles on Windows. The rough equivalent to the Windows find is the Unix grep. [14]
The initial version of cmd.exe for Windows NT was developed by Therese Stowell. [6] Windows CE 2.11 was the first embedded Windows release to support a console and a Windows CE version of cmd.exe. [7] The ReactOS implementation of cmd.exe is derived from FreeCOM, the FreeDOS command line interpreter. [2]