As of now , I have seen many individuals who use their computer on daily basis but they don’t try things most they see in their computer , this is just a post for those who want to use their computer effectively and learn something new daily from it.
Today lets explore the usage of dos prompt , First of all this post assumes that you have some general knowledge regarding computer.
Command Prompt(MS-DOS or CMD) :
Command prompt is microsofts command line interpreter for its windows operating system. Every single event that you make like click , type everything must be interpreted by OS to know what you are doing in short Command prompt is brain of your operating system where every operation is performed based on the instructions/commands given to it.
Command Prompt
Here we go into Command prompt basics now and initially you need to know the commands of DOS(Disk Operating System) and the following are the list of DOS commands
| ASSOC | Displays or modifies file extension associations. |
| ATTRIB | Displays or changes file attributes. |
| BREAK | Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking. |
| BCDEDIT | Sets properties in boot database to control boot loading. |
| CACLS | Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files. |
| CALL | Calls one batch program from another. |
| CD | Displays the name of or changes the current directory. |
| CHCP | Displays or sets the active code page number. |
| CHDIR | Displays the name of or changes the current directory. |
| CHKDSK | Checks a disk and displays a status report. |
| CHKNTFS | Displays or modifies the checking of disk at boot time. |
| CLS | Clears the screen. |
| CMD | Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter. |
| COLOR | Sets the default console foreground and background colors. |
| COMP | Compares the contents of two files or sets of files. |
| COMPACT | Displays or alters the compression of files on NTFS partitions. |
| CONVERT | Converts FAT volumes to NTFS. You cannot convert the current drive. |
| COPY | Copies one or more files to another location. |
| DATE | Displays or sets the date. |
| DEL | Deletes one or more files. |
| DIR | Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory. |
| DISKCOMP | Compares the contents of two floppy disks. |
| DISKCOPY | Copies the contents of one floppy disk to another. |
| DISKPART | Displays or configures Disk Partition properties. |
| DOSKEY | Edits command lines, recalls Windows commands, and creates macros. |
| DRIVERQUERY | Displays current device driver status and properties. |
| ECHO | Displays messages, or turns command echoing on or off. |
| ENDLOCAL | Ends localization of environment changes in a batch file. |
| ERASE | Deletes one or more files. |
| EXIT | Quits the CMD.EXE program (command interpreter). |
| FC | Compares two files or sets of files, and displays the differences between them. |
| FIND | Searches for a text string in a file or files. |
| FINDSTR | Searches for strings in files. |
| FOR | Runs a specified command for each file in a set of files. |
| FORMAT | Formats a disk for use with Windows. |
| FSUTIL | Displays or configures the file system properties. |
| FTYPE | Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations. |
| GOTO | Directs the Windows command interpreter to a labeled line in a batch program. |
| GPRESULT | Displays Group Policy information for machine or user. |
| GRAFTABL | Enables Windows to display an extended character set in graphics mode. |
| HELP | Provides Help information for Windows commands. |
| ICACLS | Display, modify, backup, or restore ACLs for files and directories. |
| IF | Performs conditional processing in batch programs. |
| LABEL | Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk. |
| MD | Creates a directory. |
| MKDIR | Creates a directory. |
| MKLINK | Creates Symbolic Links and Hard Links |
| MODE | Configures a system device. |
| MORE | Displays output one screen at a time. |
| MOVE | Moves one or more files from one directory to another directory. |
| OPENFILES | Displays files opened by remote users for a file share. |
| PATH | Displays or sets a search path for executable files. |
| PAUSE | Suspends processing of a batch file and displays a message. |
| POPD | Restores the previous value of the current directory saved by PUSHD |
| Prints a text file. | |
| PROMPT | Changes the Windows command prompt. |
| PUSHD | Saves the current directory then changes it. |
| RD | Removes a directory. |
| RECOVER | Recovers readable information from a bad or defective disk. |
| REM | Records comments (remarks) in batch files or CONFIG.SYS. |
| REN | Renames a file or files. |
| RENAME | Renames a file or files. |
| REPLACE | Replaces files. |
| RMDIR | Removes a directory. |
| ROBOCOPY | Advanced utility to copy files and directory trees |
| SET | Displays, sets, or removes Windows environment variables. |
| SETLOCAL | Begins localization of environment changes in a batch file. |
| SC | Displays or configures services (background processes). |
| SCHTASKS | Schedules commands and programs to run on a computer. |
| SHIFT | Shifts the position of replaceable parameters in batch files. |
| SHUTDOWN | Allows proper local or remote shutdown of machine. |
| SORT | Sorts input. |
| START | Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command. |
| SUBST | Associates a path with a drive letter. |
| SYSTEMINFO | Displays machine specific properties and configuration. |
| TASKLIST | Displays all currently running tasks including services. |
| TASKKILL | Kill or stop a running process or application. |
| TIME | Displays or sets the system time. |
| TITLE | Sets the window title for a CMD.EXE session. |
| TREE | Graphically displays the directory structure of a drive or path. |
| TYPE | Displays the contents of a text file. |
| VER | Displays the Windows version. |
| VERIFY | Tells Windows whether to verify that your files are written correctly to a disk. |
| VOL | Displays a disk volume label and serial number. |
| XCOPY | Copies files and directory trees. |
| WMIC | Displays WMI information inside interactive command shell. |
To know about any command try adding /? at the end of each command like
C:>attrib/?
or
C:>help attrib
where command syntax with its functionality attributes are displayed.
To know further in detail about these commands , you should visit wikipedia Linked Page here
this process of learning may be a bit boring but trust me , once you learn this you will feel good for what you have done and remember that learning completely of all these commands is difficult task and learning is not that matters but how well you can use this commands to meet your requirements is that finally counts.
what this commands can do to your computer is out of bounds that any one can imagine , it is the way you implement to make your computer work . If you are little aware you might heard of Batch files , these batch files are nothing but set of instructions based on command line syntax.there are many others attatched with command prompt like EDIT , FoxPro to this and we will deal with this topics in near future but as of now let us concentrate on command prompt.
Now lets do a small task , We will create a simple directory in our desktop and create a file named technophileshub.txt and write something in it and rename it.
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Thanks Carrie for your reply but there is already share bar and like button on wibiya tool bar at bottom 🙂