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The command is available in various Unix shells, as well as in PowerShell, ReactOS, [2] and KolibriOS. [3] It is also included as external command in PTS-DOS where it keeps a resident part, sometimes in conventional memory. [4] Since most current history commands are shell built-ins, details depend on the choice of shell.
In Microsoft's command-line interpreter Windows PowerShell, kill is a predefined command alias for the Stop-Process cmdlet. Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and 7 include the command taskkill [5] to terminate processes. The usual syntax for this command is taskkill /im "IMAGENAME".
The equivalent on DOS (COMMAND.COM) and Microsoft Windows is the cd command with no arguments. Windows PowerShell provides the equivalent Get-Location cmdlet with the standard aliases gl and pwd. On Windows CE 5.0, the cmd.exe Command Processor Shell includes the pwd command. [16]
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. [9]
The PowerShell and fish shells natively support this feature; pressing the Tab ↹ key inserts the completion. Implementations of this feature can differ between shells; for example, PowerShell [44] and zsh [45] use an external module to provide completions, and fish derives its completions from the user's command history. [46]
tail -F /var/adm/messages To interrupt tail while it is monitoring, break-in with Ctrl+C. This command can be run "in the background" with &, see job control. If the user has a command's result to monitor, the watch command can be used. There is a GNU Emacs mode that emulates the functionality of tail -f, called auto-revert-tail-mode.
In PowerShell, sleep is a predefined command alias for the Start-Sleep cmdlet which serves the same purpose. [9] Microsoft also provides a sleep resource kit tool for Windows which can be used in batch files or the command prompt to pause the execution and wait for some time. [ 10 ]
In computing, tee is a command in command-line interpreters using standard streams which reads standard input and writes it to both standard output and one or more files, effectively duplicating its input. [1]