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138 Commands of Commond Prompt ( DOS ) with their descriptio  

Friday, March 27, 2009

Command Prompt



No. Command Detail



1 ANSI.SYS -- Defines functions that change display graphics, control cursor movement, and reassign keys.



2 APPEND -- Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.



3 ARP -- Displays, adds, and removes arp information from network devices



4 ASSIGN -- Assign a drive letter to an alternate letter



5 ASSOC -- View the file associations



6 AT -- Schedule a time to execute commands or programs.



7 ATMADM -- Lists connections and addresses seen by Windows ATM call manager.



8 ATTRIB -- Display and change file attributes.



9 BATCH -- NRecovery console command that executes a series of commands in a file.



10 BOOTCFG -- Recovery console command that allows a user to view, modify, and rebuild the boot.ini



11 BREAK -- Enable / disable CTRL + C feature.



12 CACLS -- View and modify file ACL's.



13 CALL -- Calls a batch file from another batch file.



14 CD -- Changes directories.



15 CHCP -- Supplement the International keyboard and character set information.



16 CHDIR -- Changes directories.



17 CHKDSK -- Check the hard disk drive running FAT for errors.



18 CHKNTFS -- Check the hard disk drive running NTFS for errors.



19 CHOICE -- Specify a listing of multiple options within a batch file.



20 CLS -- Clears the screen.



21 CMD -- Opens the command interpreter.



22 COLOR -- Easily change the foreground and background color of the

MS-DOS window.



23 COMP -- Compares files.



24 COMPACT -- Compresses and uncompress files.



25 CONTROL -- Open control panel icons from the MS-DOS prompt.



26 CONVERT Convert FAT to NTFS.



27 COPY -- Copy one or more files to an alternate location.



28 CTTY -- Change the computers input/output devices.



29 DATE -- View or change the systems date.



30 DEBUG -- Debug utility to create assembly programs to modify hardware settings.



31 DEFRAG -- Re-arrange the hard disk drive to help with loading programs.



32 DEL -- Deletes one or more files.



33 DELETE -- Recovery console command that deletes a file.



34 DELTREE -- Deletes one or more files and/or directories.



35 DIR -- List the contents of one or more directory.



36 DISABLE -- Recovery console command that disables Windows system services or drivers.



37 DISKCOMP -- Compare a disk with another disk.



38 DISKCOPY -- Copy the contents of one disk and place them on another disk.



39 DOSKEY -- Command to view and execute commands that have been run in the past.



40 DOSSHELL -- A GUI to help with early MS-DOS users.



41 DRIVPARM -- Enables overwrite of original device drivers.



42 ECHO -- Displays messages and enables and disables echo.



43 EDIT -- View and edit files.



44 EDLIN -- View and edit files.



45 EMM386 -- Load extended Memory Manager.



46 ENABLE -- Recovery console command to enable a disable service or driver.



47 ENDLOCAL -- Stops the localization of the environment changes

enabled by the setlocal command.



48 ERASE -- Erase files from computer.



49 EXPAND -- Expand a Microsoft Windows file back to it's original format.



50 EXIT -- Exit from the command interpreter.



51 EXTRACT -- Extract files from the Microsoft Windows cabinets.



52 FASTHELP -- Displays a listing of MS-DOS commands and information about them



53 FC -- Compare files.



54 FDISK -- Utility used to create partitions on the hard disk drive.



55 FIND -- Search for text within a file.



56 FINDSTR -- Searches for a string of text within a file.



57 FIXBOOT -- Writes a new boot sector.



59 FIXMBR -- Writes a new boot record to a disk drive.



60 FOR -- Boolean used in batch files.



61 FORMAT -- Command to erase and prepare a disk drive.



62 FTP -- Command to connect and operate on a FTP server.



63 FTYPE -- Displays or modifies file types used in file extension

associations.



64 GOTO -- Moves a batch file to a specific label or location.



65 GRAFTABL -- Show extended characters in graphics mode.



66 HELP -- Display a listing of commands and brief explanation.



67 IF -- Allows for batch files to perform conditional processing.



68 IFSHLP.SYS -- 32-bit file manager.



69 IPCONFIG -- Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values.



70 KEYB -- Change layout of keyboard.



71 LABEL -- Change the label of a disk drive.



72 LH -- Load a device driver in to high memory.



73 LISTSVC -- Recovery console command that displays the services and drivers.



74 LOADFIX -- Load a program above the first 64k.



75 LOADHIGH -- Load a device driver in to high memory.



76 LOCK -- Lock the hard disk drive.



77 LOGON -- Recovery console command to list installations and enable administrator login.



78 MAP -- Displays the device name of a drive.



79 MD -- Command to create a new directory.



80 MEM -- Display memory on system.



81 MKDIR -- Command to create a new directory.



82 MODE -- Modify the port or display settings.



83 MORE -- Display one page at a time.



84 MOVE -- Move one or more files from one directory to another DIRECTORY



85 MSAV -- Early Microsoft Virus scanner.



86 MSD -- Diagnostics utility.



87 MSCDEX -- Utility used to load and provide access to the CD-ROM.





88 NBTSTAT -- Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT





89 NET -- Update, fix, or view the network or network settings





90 NETSH -- Configure dynamic and static network information from MS-DOS.





91 NETSTAT -- Display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information.



92 NLSFUNC -- Load country specific information.



93 NSLOOKUP -- Look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network.



94 PATH -- View and modify the computers path location



95 PATHPING -- View and locate locations of network latency



96 PAUSE -- command used in batch files to stop the processing of a command.



97 PING -- Test / send information to another network computer or network device .



98 POPD -- Changes to the directory or network path stored by the pushd command.



99 POWER -- Conserve power with computer portables.



100 PRINT -- Prints data to a printer port.



101 PROMPT -- View and change the MS-DOS prompt.



102 PUSHD -- Stores a directory or network path in memory so it can be returned to at any time.



103 QBASIC -- Open the QBasic.



104 RD -- Removes an empty directory.



105 REN -- Renames a file or directory.



106 RENAME -- Renames a file or directory.



107 RMDIR -- Removes an empty directory.



108 ROUTE -- View and configure windows network route tables.





109 RUNAS -- Enables a user to execute a program on another

computer.



110 SCANDISK -- Run the scandisk utility.



111 SCANREG -- Scan registry and recover registry from errors.



112 SET -- Change one variable or string to another.



113 SETLOCAL -- Enables local environments to be changed without affecting anything else.



114 SHARE -- Installs support for file sharing and locking capabilities.





115 SETVER -- Change MS-DOS version to trick older MS-DOS programs.





116 SHIFT -- Changes the position of replaceable parameters in a batch program.



117 SHUTDOWN -- Shutdown the computer from the MS-DOS prompt.



118 SMARTDRV -- Create a disk cache in conventional memory or extended memory.



119 SORT -- Sorts the input and displays the output to the screen.





120 START -- Start a separate window in Windows from the MS-DOS prompt.



121 SUBST -- Substitute a folder on your computer for another drive letter.



122 SWITCHES -- Remove add functions from MS-DOS.



123 SYS -- Transfer system files to disk drive.



124 TELNET -- Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt.



125 TIME -- View or modify the system time.



126 TITLE -- Change the title of their MS-DOS window.



127 TRACERT -- Visually view a network packets route across a network.



128 TREE -- View a visual tree of the hard disk drive.





129 TYPE -- Display the contents of a file.



130 UNDELETE -- Undelete a file that has been deleted.



131 UNFORMAT -- Unformat a hard disk drive.



132 UNLOCK -- Unlock a disk drive.



133 VER -- Display the version information.



134 VERIFY -- Enables or disables the feature to determine if files have been written properly.



135 VOL -- Displays the volume information about the designated drive.



136 XCOPY -- Copy multiple files, directories, and/or drives from one location to another.



137 TRUENAME -- When placed before a file, will display the whole directory in which it exists



138 TASKKILL -- It allows you to kill those unneeded or locked up applications:fencing:

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