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cmd.exe in Windows NT 2000, 4DOS, 4OS2, 4NT, and a number of third-party solutions allow direct entry of environment variables from the command prompt. From at least Windows 2000, the set command allows for the evaluation of strings into variables, thus providing inter alia a means of performing integer arithmetic.
cmd.exe – The program implementing the Windows command-line interpreter; Foreach loop – The FOR and FORFILES commands both implement a for-each loop; find (Unix) – Unix command that finds files by attribute, similar to forfiles; find (Windows) – DOS and Windows command that finds text matching a pattern
On Windows CE .NET 4.2, [3] Windows CE 5.0 [4] and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 [5] it is referred to as the Command Processor Shell. Its implementations differ between operating systems, but the behavior and basic set of commands are consistent.
On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. [21] DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of the TYPE command. [22] It is also available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox and the EFI shell. [23] In Windows PowerShell, type is a predefined command alias for the Get-Content Cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose.
In computing, more is a command to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file one screen at a time. It is available on Unix and Unix-like systems, DOS, [3] Digital Research FlexOS, [4] IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, [5] IBM OS/2, [6] Microsoft Windows and ReactOS. [7] Programs of this sort are called pagers.
/F:file Reads file list from the specified file(/ stands for console). /C:string Uses specified string as a literal search string. /G:file Gets search strings from the specified file(/ stands for console). /D:dir Search a semicolon delimited list of directories; Note: Following command displays the detailed help about this command: FINDSTR /?
Microsoft released a version of cmd.exe for Windows 9x and ME called WIN95CMD to allow users of older versions of Windows to use certain cmd.exe-style batch files. As of Windows 8, cmd.exe is the normal command interpreter for batch files; the older COMMAND.COM can be run as well in 32-bit versions of Windows able to run 16-bit programs.
The category Windows commands deals with articles related to internal and external commands supported by members of the Windows family of operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME as well as the NT family.