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A+ Study Guide: Command Line & OS Utilities

Command/CMD
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This starts a new instance of the MS-DOS command interpreter in the Microsoft windows operating system environment. Prior to Windows, MS-DOS was the popular way to allow users to interact with the operating system environment.

Syntax

COMMAND [[drive:]path] [device]

Switches

/C command specifies that the command interpreter is to perform the specified command and then exit.

E:xxxxx

Specifies the environment size in bytes indicated by xxxxx.

/K command

Runs the specified command, program, or batch program and then displays the MS-DOS command prompt. This switch must be the last switch on the COMMAND command line.

/Y Directs COMMAND.COM to step through the batch file specified by the /C or /K switches. This switch is useful for debugging batch files.

 
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