Windows Command Prompt Tutorial
Introduction Internal and External commands Basic Commands Basic file commands Sorting the data Searching patterns in file Comparing files Variables in Windows command prompt Piping Input and Output Redirection View all processes and tasks killing tasks scheduling tasks Network commands System hardware commandsBasic commands in windows command prompt
Now let us take a look at some basic commands in windows command prompt. To show all commands
> help
To get help on specific command
> help commandName
> commandname /?
To exit command prompt
> exit
To clear the output screen of command prompt
> cls
To echo the message on output screen
> echo
To display contents of a file, You can use below commands. more command will display the contents of a file one page at a time. This is just like more command in Linux. type command will display contents of entire file in one go.
> more <file-name>
> type <file-name>
To print the file, you can execute below command.
> print <file-name>
cmd command starts child command prompt. We can set the color of the window using below command.
COLOR [background][foreground]
COLOR 08
Here are some of the color values.
08 = Black/Gray
19 = Blue/Light Blue
2A = Green/Light Green
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