Cmd.exe

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Internal commands

Internal Commands Break Chcp Chdir

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Comparison with COMMAND.COM

User experience Bad command or file name DR DOS HISTORY DOSKEY

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Use

Desktop Windows Terminal Windows Console Pipes Standard error stream

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Overview

Shell Program Windows NT CE

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Developers: Microsoft, IBM, ReactOS contributors
Operating system: Windows NT family · Windows CE family · OS/2 · eComStation · ArcaOS
Other names: Windows Command Processor
Platform: IA-32, x86-64, ARM (and historically DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, and Itanium)
Predecessor: COMMAND.COM
Release: December 1987; 38 years ago (1987-12)

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Overview

Shell Shell (computing)
Program Computer program
Windows
NT Windows NT
CE Windows CE
OS/2
EComStation
ArcaOS ArcaOS?action=edit&redlink=1
ReactOS
CE .NET 4.2 Windows CE .NET 4.2
CE 5.0 Windows CE 5.0
Embedded CE 6.0 Windows Embedded CE 6.0
DOS
Windows 9x
COMMAND.COM
PowerShell
Therese Stowell Therese Stowell?action=edit&redlink=1
Windows CE 2.11
FreeDOS

Use

Desktop Windows Desktop
Windows Terminal
Windows Console
Pipes Pipeline (Unix)
Standard error stream
Environment variables Environment variable
Processes Process (computing)
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0
Special Special character
Whitespace Whitespace character

Internal commands

Internal Shell builtin
Commands Command (computing)
Break Break (command)
Chcp Chcp (command)
Chdir Cd (command)
Cls Cls (command)
Copy Copy (command)
Date Date (command)
Erase Del (command)
Dir Dir (command)
Dpath
Echo Echo (command)
Exit Exit (command)
For FOR (DOS command)
Goto GOTO (DOS command)
If IF (DOS command)
Mkdir
Path Path (command)
Pause Pause (command)
Prompt Prompt (command)
Rmdir
Rem Rem (command)
Rename Ren (command)
Set Set (command)
Shift Shift (command)
Start Start (command)
Time TIME (command)
Type TYPE (DOS command)
Ver Ver (command)
Verify Verify (command)

Comparison with COMMAND.COM

User experience
Bad command or file name
DR DOS
HISTORY HISTORY (CONFIG.SYS directive)
DOSKEY
Rotating command-line completion Command-line completion
Tab Tab key
Shift Shift key
Caret
Escape character
Control structures
DELTREE
Rd RMDIR
Switch Switch (command line)
Batch file
C shell
Expression evaluation
For For loop
Pushd
Popd
File Explorer
Case-insensitive Case sensitivity
PC DOS
MS-DOS

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Nodes105

Edges104

Triples49

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.019048

Components1

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Cmd.exe

Top relations

related to Comparison with COMMAND.COM · 37

Cmd.exe → Adds, An, Bad, Changes, COM, COMCALLcommand, COMDELTREEcommand, COMMAND, DOS, DOSKEY, DR DOS, DR-DOS, EnableDelayedExpansion, EndLocalrestores, File, File Explorer, HISTORY, In OS/2, More, MS-DOS

Operating system · 6

Cmd.exe → ArcaOS, eComStation, OS/2, ReactOS, Windows CE family, Windows NT family

Developers · 1

Cmd.exe → Microsoft, IBM, ReactOS contributors

Other names · 1

Cmd.exe → Windows Command Processor

Platform · 1

Cmd.exe → IA-32, x86-64, ARM (and historically DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, and Itanium)

Predecessor · 1

Cmd.exe → COMMAND.COM

Release · 1

Cmd.exe → December 1987; 38 years ago (1987-12)

Type · 1

Cmd.exe → Command-line interpreter

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Important terminology

command windows cmd commands exe shell com nt line ce os reactos microsoft versions prompt processor file characters exit operating

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Cmd.exe	Developers	Microsoft, IBM, ReactOS contributors	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Operating system	Windows NT family	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Operating system	Windows CE family	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Operating system	OS/2	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Operating system	eComStation	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Operating system	ArcaOS	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Operating system	ReactOS	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Other names	Windows Command Processor	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Platform	IA-32, x86-64, ARM (and historically DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, and Itanium)	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Predecessor	COMMAND.COM	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Release	December 1987; 38 years ago (1987-12)	1.00	infobox
Cmd.exe	Type	Command-line interpreter	1.00	infobox

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