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Basic DOS commands

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14y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

ATTRIB ....... Displays or changes file attributes.

CD ........... Displays the name of or changes the current directory.

CLS .......... Clears the screen.

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.

EXIT ......... Quits the CMD.EXE program (command interpreter).

FIND ......... Searches for a text string in a file or files.

FINDSTR ...... Searches for strings in files.

HELP ......... Provides Help information for Windows commands.

MD ........... Creates a directory.

MKDIR ........ Creates a directory.

MORE ......... Displays output one screen at a time.

MOVE ......... Moves one or more files from one directory to another directory.

PATH ......... Displays or sets a search path for executable files.

PRINT ........ Prints a text file.

PROMPT ....... Changes the Windows command prompt.

RD ........... Removes a directory.

REN .......... Renames a file or files.

RENAME ....... Renames a file or files.

REPLACE ...... Replaces files.

RMDIR ........ Removes a directory.

SET .......... Displays, sets, or removes Windows environment variables.

TIME ......... Displays or sets the system time.

TREE ......... Graphically displays the directory structure of a drive or path.

TYPE ......... Displays the contents of a text file.

XCOPY ........ Copies files and directory trees.

To see the full list use the "HELP" command at the DOS prompt.

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