Windows Command Line Tutorial Useful Commands

Windows Command Line Tutorial Useful Commands

USEFUL COMMANDS :

The command.com or cmd.exe programs have built in commands that are very useful.

below i have discussed some of the important commands and instruction on how to find 

information on the available commands.

1)HELP Command:this command will list all commands built into command prompt.if you want furthur information

for this command you can type help command name.for example help cd will give you

detailed information on a command.

for all commands you can also type the command name followed by a slash(\).to see help on command.for example cd \.

2)EXIT Command:this command will close the command prompt.simply type exit and hit enter

and the command prompt will close.

3)CD Command:this command allows you to change current directory and tells in what directory are you currently in.

to use cd command type cd directory name and press enter.

this would then change the directory you are currently in to one specified

4)DIR Command:this command will list all files and directories contained in your current directory.

to use this command you would just type dir and hit enter this will give you the current files in directory you are including 

all the information ,file size and time and date they were last written to.

5)COPY Command:this command helps you to copy files from one location to another.to use this command you would type copy fileto copied file. for example if you have file in c:\home\test.txt and would like to copy it to c:\windows\test.txt you would type copy c:\home\test.txt c:\windows\test.txt and hit enter.

6)MOVE Command:This command allows you to move files from one location to another.

• Creating And Removing Directories