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  2. AUTOEXEC.BAT - Wikipedia

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    AUTOEXEC.BAT is a system file that was originally on DOS-type operating systems.It is a plain-text batch file in the root directory of the boot device.The name of the file is an abbreviation of "automatic execution", which describes its function in automatically executing commands on system startup; the filename was coined in response to the 8.3 filename limitations of the FAT file system family.

  3. start (command) - Wikipedia

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    Typical Unix shells (bash, etc.) have no built-in registry of file types and associated default applications. Linux command-line tools with similar functions include xdg-open [8] and run-mailcap. On Cygwin, the command is implemented as the cygstart executable. [9] In PowerShell, the Invoke-Item cmdlet is used to invoke an executable or open a ...

  4. Run command - Wikipedia

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    The Multics shell includes a run command to run a command in an isolated environment. [1] The DEC TOPS-10 [2] and TOPS-20 [3] Command Processor included a RUN command for running executable programs. In the BASIC programming language, RUN is used to start program execution from direct mode, or to start an overlay program from a loader program.

  5. Shell script - Wikipedia

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    The term is also used more generally to mean the automated mode of running an operating system shell; each operating system uses a particular name for these functions including batch files (MSDos-Win95 stream, OS/2), command procedures (VMS), and shell scripts (Windows NT stream and third-party derivatives like 4NT—article is at cmd.exe), and ...

  6. Batch file - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    Another important use of the echo command is to toggle echoing of commands on and off in batch files. Traditionally batch files begin with the @echo off statement. This says to the interpreter that echoing of commands should be off during the whole execution of the batch file, thus resulting in a "tidier" output (the @ symbol declares that this ...

  8. GNOME Files - Wikipedia

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    These major changes led to a lot of criticism, and various vendors such as Linux Mint decided to fork version 3.4. [16] [17] Version 3.8 included a new option to view files and folders as a tree, a new Connect to Server item in the sidebar and incremental loading of search results. [18]

  9. Comparison of executable file formats - Wikipedia

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    This is a comparison of binary executable file formats which, once loaded by a suitable executable loader, can be directly executed by the CPU rather than being interpreted by software. In addition to the binary application code, the executables may contain headers and tables with relocation and fixup information as well as various kinds of ...