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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"System command" redirects here; not to be confused with <a href="System_call" title="System call">system call</a>.</div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="Command_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Command (disambiguation)">Command § Computing</a>.</div>

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<p>In <a href="Computing" title="Computing">computing</a>, a <b>command</b> is an instruction received via an external <a href="Interface_(computing)" title="Interface (computing)">interface</a> that directs the behavior of a <a href="Computer_program" title="Computer program">computer program</a>. Commonly, commands are sent to a program via a <a href="Command-line_interface" title="Command-line interface">command-line interface</a>, a <a href="Scripting_language" title="Scripting language">script</a>, a <a href="Network_protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Network protocol">network protocol</a>, or as an event triggered in a <a href="Graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface">graphical user interface</a>.

</p><p>Many commands support arguments to specify input and to modify default behavior. Terminology and syntax varies but there are notable common approaches. Typically, an <b>option</b> or a <b>flag</b> is a name (without <a href="Whitespace_character" title="Whitespace character">whitespace</a>) with a prefix such as <a href="Dash" title="Dash">dash</a> or <a href="Slash_(punctuation)" title="Slash (punctuation)">slash</a> that modifies default behavior. An option might have a required value that follows it. Typically, flag refers to an option that does not have a following value. A <b>parameter</b> is an argument that specifies input to the command and its meaning is based on its position in the command line relative to other parameters; generally ignoring options. A parameter can specify anything, but often it specifies a <a href="File_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="File (computing)">file</a> by <a href="Filename" title="Filename">name</a> or <a href="File_path" class="mw-redirect" title="File path">path</a>.

</p><p>The term <i>command</i> is sometimes also used for internal program instructions, but often other terms are more appropriate such as <a href="Statement_(programming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Statement (programming)">statement</a>, <a href="Expression_(computer_science)" title="Expression (computer science)">expression</a>, <a href="Function_(computer_programming)" title="Function (computer programming)">function</a>, or <a href="Conditional_(computer_programming)" title="Conditional (computer programming)">conditional</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, printing a message in Bash is via the <i>command</i> <a href="Printf_(Unix)" title="Printf (Unix)">printf</a>, while in Python it is via the <i>function</i> print().<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further, some aspects of adjacent technology are conflated with commands. For example, conditional logic in Bash and Python is called an <i>expression</i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>statements</i> in Java.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>A notable context in which commands are prevalent is the <a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a> <a href="Shell_(computing)" title="Shell (computing)">shell</a>. Commonly, the shell dispatches a command to a program that has a file name matching the first parameter. In a <a href="Unix_shell" title="Unix shell">Unix shell</a> (such as <a href="Bash_(Unix_shell)" title="Bash (Unix shell)">bash</a> and many related variants), the match must be exact including case. The following bash command changes the <a href="Working_directory" title="Working directory">working directory</a> to <i>/home/pete</i> by invoking the program <i><a href="Cd_(command)" title="Cd (command)">cd</a></i>:

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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span>/home/pete

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<p>The following bash command writes "Hello World" via program <a href="Echo_(command)" title="Echo (command)">echo</a> to <a href="Standard_output" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard output">standard output</a> – typically the <a href="Computer_terminal" title="Computer terminal">terminal</a>. Quotes around the two words indicate that the phrase is treated as a single parameter.

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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="nb">echo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"Hello World"</span>

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<p>The following demonstrates how the default behavior of a command is modified with a switch. The switch <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">-e</code> causes the command to treat characters prefixed with a backslash as the associated control character. In this case <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">\t</code> results in a tab character.

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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-bash mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="nb">echo</span><span class="w"> </span>-e<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"Hello\tWorld"</span>

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<p>In shells such as <a href="Cmd.exe" title="Cmd.exe">command prompt</a>, <a href="DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a>, and <a href="OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> some commands are built-in; are not implemented as a separate program. But, if a command is not built-in, then the shell dispatches to a program that has an executable extension (such as <i>.exe</i>) and base name matching the first parameter ignoring case. The following command prompt command displays the content of file <i>readme.txt</i> via the built-in command <i><a href="TYPE_(DOS_command)" title="TYPE (DOS command)">type</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-batch mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="k">type</span> readme.txt

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<p>The following command prompt command lists the contents of the current directory via built-in command <i><a href="Dir_(command)" title="Dir (command)">dir</a></i>. The switch <i>/Q</i> modifies default behavior to include owner information.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-batch mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="k">dir</span> /Q

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<ul><li><a href="Formal_grammar" title="Formal grammar">Formal grammar</a></li>

<li><a href="Gesture_recognition" title="Gesture recognition">Gesture recognition</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_POSIX_commands" title="List of POSIX commands">List of POSIX commands</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_DOS_commands" title="List of DOS commands">List of DOS commands</a></li></ul>

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<div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: <i><b><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Windows_commands" class="extiw external" title="wikibooks:Guide to Windows commands">Guide to Windows commands</a></b></i></div></div>

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<li><a href="Chattr" title="Chattr">chattr</a></li>

<li><a href="Chmod" title="Chmod">chmod</a></li>

<li><a href="Chown" title="Chown">chown</a></li>

<li><a href="Chgrp" title="Chgrp">chgrp</a></li>

<li><a href="Cksum" title="Cksum">cksum</a></li>

<li><a href="Fuser_(Unix)" title="Fuser (Unix)">fuser</a></li>

<li><a href="Mkdir" title="Mkdir">mkdir</a></li>

<li><a href="Rmdir" title="Rmdir">rmdir</a></li>

<li><a href="Split_(Unix)" title="Split (Unix)">split</a></li>

<li><a href="Touch_(command)" title="Touch (command)">touch</a></li>

<li><a href="Umask" title="Umask">umask</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Processes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Cron" title="Cron">crontab</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">User environment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Logname" title="Logname">logname</a></li>

<li><a href="Uname" title="Uname">uname</a></li>

<li><a href="Write_(Unix)" title="Write (Unix)">write</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Text processing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Basename" title="Basename">basename</a></li>

<li><a href="Csplit" title="Csplit">csplit</a></li>

<li><a href="Dirname" title="Dirname">dirname</a></li>

<li><a href="Iconv" title="Iconv">iconv</a></li>

<li><a href="Paste_(Unix)" title="Paste (Unix)">paste</a></li>

<li><a href="Patch_(Unix)" title="Patch (Unix)">patch</a></li>

<li><a href="Printf_(Unix)" title="Printf (Unix)">printf</a></li>

<li><a href="Strings_(Unix)" title="Strings (Unix)">strings</a></li>

<li><a href="Troff" title="Troff">troff</a></li>

<li><a href="Xargs" title="Xargs">xargs</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Shell_builtin" title="Shell builtin">Shell builtins</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alias_(command)" title="Alias (command)">alias</a></li>

<li><a href="Environment_variable#unset_command" title="Environment variable">unset</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Searching</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Documentation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Software_development" title="Software development">Software development</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Ctags" title="Ctags">ctags</a></li>

<li><a href="Strip_(Unix)" title="Strip (Unix)">strip</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Sleep_(command)" title="Sleep (command)">sleep</a></li>

<li><a href="True_and_false_(commands)" title="True and false (commands)">true and false</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"></span></span> <b>Categories</b>

<ul><li>Standard Unix programs</li>

<li>Unix SUS2008 utilities</li></ul></li>

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<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Windows_command-line_programs_and_shell_builtins413" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Windows_command-line_programs_and_shell_builtins413" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a> <a href="Command-line_interface" title="Command-line interface">command-line</a> programs and <a href="Shell_builtin" title="Shell builtin">shell builtins</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ecosystem</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Command-line_interpreter" class="mw-redirect" title="Command-line interpreter">Interpreters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="COMMAND.COM" title="COMMAND.COM">COMMAND.COM</a></li>

<li><a href="Cmd.exe" title="Cmd.exe">Command Prompt</a></li>

<li><a href="PowerShell" title="PowerShell">PowerShell</a></li>

<li><a href="Recovery_Console" title="Recovery Console">Recovery Console</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Terminal_emulator" title="Terminal emulator">Terminals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Windows_Console" title="Windows Console">Windows Console</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Terminal" title="Windows Terminal">Windows Terminal</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">File system navigation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Cd_(command)" title="Cd (command)">cd</a> (chdir)</li>

<li><a href="Pushd_and_popd" title="Pushd and popd">pushd</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">File management</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="ATTRIB" title="ATTRIB">attrib</a></li>

<li><a href="Cacls" title="Cacls">cacls</a></li>

<li><a href="Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">cipher</a></li>

<li><a href="Compact_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact (computing)">compact</a></li>

<li><a href="Del_(command)" title="Del (command)">del</a> (erase)</li>

<li><a href="Deltree" class="mw-redirect" title="Deltree">deltree</a></li>

<li><a href="Cacls#icacls" title="Cacls">icacls</a></li>

<li><a href="Mkdir" title="Mkdir">mkdir</a> (md)</li>

<li><a href="Mklink" class="mw-redirect" title="Mklink">mklink</a></li>

<li><a href="Openfiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Openfiles">openfiles</a></li>

<li><a href="Recover_(command)" title="Recover (command)">recover</a></li>

<li><a href="Ren_(command)" title="Ren (command)">ren</a> (rename)</li>

<li><a href="Replace_(command)" title="Replace (command)">replace</a></li>

<li><a href="Rmdir" title="Rmdir">rmdir</a> (rd)</li>

<li><a href="Robocopy" title="Robocopy">robocopy</a></li>

<li><a href="Takeown" class="mw-redirect" title="Takeown">takeown</a></li>

<li><a href="XCOPY" title="XCOPY">xcopy</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Archiving</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Cabinet_(file_format)" title="Cabinet (file format)">expand</a></li>

<li><a href="Cabinet_(file_format)" title="Cabinet (file format)">extrac32</a></li>

<li><a href="Cabinet_(file_format)" title="Cabinet (file format)">extract</a></li>

<li><a href="Cabinet_(file_format)" title="Cabinet (file format)">makecab</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Disk management</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="CHKDSK" title="CHKDSK">chkdsk</a></li>

<li><a href="Convert_(command)" title="Convert (command)">convert</a></li>

<li><a href="Disk_Defragmenter_(Windows)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disk Defragmenter (Windows)">defrag</a></li>

<li><a href="Diskcomp" title="Diskcomp">diskcomp</a></li>

<li><a href="Diskcopy" title="Diskcopy">diskcopy</a></li>

<li><a href="Diskpart" title="Diskpart">diskpart</a></li>

<li><a href="Diskraid" class="mw-redirect" title="Diskraid">diskraid</a></li>

<li><a href="Shadow_Copy" title="Shadow Copy">diskshadow</a></li>

<li><a href="Drvspace" class="mw-redirect" title="Drvspace">drvspace</a></li>

<li><a href="Fdisk" title="Fdisk">fdisk</a></li>

<li><a href="Format_(command)" title="Format (command)">format</a></li>

<li><a href="Fsutil" class="mw-redirect" title="Fsutil">fsutil</a></li>

<li><a href="Label_(command)" title="Label (command)">label</a></li>

<li><a href="BitLocker" title="BitLocker">manage-bde</a></li>

<li><a href="MSCDEX" title="MSCDEX">MSCDEX</a></li>

<li><a href="Refsutil" class="mw-redirect" title="Refsutil">refsutil</a></li>

<li><a href="SUBST" title="SUBST">subst</a></li>

<li><a href="Microsoft_ScanDisk" title="Microsoft ScanDisk">scandisk</a></li>

<li><a href="Shadow_Copy" title="Shadow Copy">vssadmin</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Processes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Runas" title="Runas">runas</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Task_Scheduler" title="Windows Task Scheduler">schtasks</a></li>

<li><a href="Shutdown_(computing)" title="Shutdown (computing)">shutdown</a></li>

<li><a href="Start_(command)" title="Start (command)">start</a></li>

<li><a href="Taskkill" class="mw-redirect" title="Taskkill">taskkill</a></li>

<li><a href="Tasklist" title="Tasklist">tasklist</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Registry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="File_association" title="File association">assoc</a></li>

<li><a href="Ftype" title="Ftype">ftype</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Registry#Command_line_editing" title="Windows Registry">regini</a></li>

<li><a href="Regsvr32" title="Regsvr32">regsvr32</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">User environment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Cmdkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Cmdkey">cmdkey</a></li>

<li><a href="Graftabl" class="mw-redirect" title="Graftabl">graftabl</a></li>

<li><a href="Setver" class="mw-redirect" title="Setver">setver</a></li>

<li><a href="Title_(command)" title="Title (command)">title</a></li>

<li><a href="Where_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="Where (command)">where</a></li>

<li><a href="Whoami" title="Whoami">whoami</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">File contents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Edlin" title="Edlin">edlin</a></li>

<li><a href="Findstr" title="Findstr">findstr</a></li>

<li><a href="PRINT_(command)" title="PRINT (command)">print</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Scripting_language" title="Scripting language">Scripting</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Choice_(command)" title="Choice (command)">choice</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Script_Host" title="Windows Script Host">cscript</a></li>

<li><a href="DOSKEY" title="DOSKEY">doskey</a></li>

<li><a href="Forfiles" title="Forfiles">forfiles</a></li>

<li><a href="Pause_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pause (command)">pause</a></li>

<li><a href="Command-line_interface#Command_prompt" title="Command-line interface">prompt</a></li>

<li><a href="Timeout_(computing)" title="Timeout (computing)">timeout</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Networking</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Background_Intelligent_Transfer_Service" title="Background Intelligent Transfer Service">bitsadmin</a></li>

<li><a href="MAC_address" title="MAC address">getmac</a></li>

<li><a href="Hostname" title="Hostname">hostname</a></li>

<li><a href="Ipconfig" title="Ipconfig">ipconfig</a></li>

<li><a href="Nbtstat" class="mw-redirect" title="Nbtstat">nbtstat</a></li>

<li><a href="Netsh" title="Netsh">netsh</a></li>

<li><a href="Netstat" title="Netstat">netstat</a></li>

<li><a href="Nslookup" title="Nslookup">nslookup</a></li>

<li><a href="PathPing" title="PathPing">PathPing</a></li>

<li><a href="Rpcping" class="mw-redirect" title="Rpcping">rpcping</a></li>

<li><a href="Route_(command)" title="Route (command)">route</a></li>

<li><a href="Setspn" class="mw-redirect" title="Setspn">setspn</a></li>

<li><a href="Ssh-agent" title="Ssh-agent">ssh-agent</a></li>

<li><a href="Ssh-keygen" title="Ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenSSH" title="OpenSSH">ssh-keyscan</a></li>

<li><a href="Traceroute" title="Traceroute">tracert</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Remote_Management" title="Windows Remote Management">winrm</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Remote_Management" title="Windows Remote Management">winrs</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Maintenance and care</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Auditpol" class="mw-redirect" title="Auditpol">auditpol</a></li>

<li><a href="Dispdiag" class="mw-redirect" title="Dispdiag">dispdiag</a></li>

<li><a href="Device_Manager#Driverquery_command" title="Device Manager">driverquery</a></li>

<li><a href="Event_Viewer" title="Event Viewer">eventcreate</a></li>

<li><a href="Event_Viewer" title="Event Viewer">eventtriggers</a></li>

<li><a href="Group_Policy" title="Group Policy">gpresult</a></li>

<li><a href="Group_Policy" title="Group Policy">gpupdate</a></li>

<li><a href="Logman" class="mw-redirect" title="Logman">logman</a></li>

<li><a href="Mofcomp" class="mw-redirect" title="Mofcomp">mofcomp</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Installer" title="Windows Installer">msiexec</a></li>

<li><a href="NTBackup" title="NTBackup">ntbackup</a></li>

<li><a href="Pentium_FDIV_bug#Software_patches" title="Pentium FDIV bug">pentnt</a></li>

<li><a href="Pnpunattend" class="mw-redirect" title="Pnpunattend">pnpunattend</a></li>

<li><a href="Pnputil" class="mw-redirect" title="Pnputil">pnputil</a></li>

<li><a href="REAgentC" class="mw-redirect" title="REAgentC">REAgentC</a></li>

<li><a href="Relog" class="mw-redirect" title="Relog">relog</a></li>

<li><a href="Sxstrace" class="mw-redirect" title="Sxstrace">sxstrace</a></li>

<li><a href="Systeminfo" class="mw-redirect" title="Systeminfo">systeminfo</a></li>

<li><a href="Tpmtool" class="mw-redirect" title="Tpmtool">tpmtool</a></li>

<li><a href="Tpmvscmgr" class="mw-redirect" title="Tpmvscmgr">tpmvscmgr</a></li>

<li><a href="Tracerpt" class="mw-redirect" title="Tracerpt">tracerpt</a></li>

<li><a href="Typeperf" class="mw-redirect" title="Typeperf">typeperf</a></li>

<li><a href="WBAdmin" title="WBAdmin">WBAdmin</a></li>

<li><a href="Wecutil" class="mw-redirect" title="Wecutil">wecutil</a></li>

<li><a href="Wevtutil" class="mw-redirect" title="Wevtutil">wevtutil</a></li>

<li><a href="Winmgmt" class="mw-redirect" title="Winmgmt">winmgmt</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_System_Assessment_Tool" title="Windows System Assessment Tool">winsat</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Boot management</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bcdedit" class="mw-redirect" title="Bcdedit">bcdedit</a></li>

<li><a href="Bootcfg" title="Bootcfg">bootcfg</a></li>

<li><a href="Bootsect" class="mw-redirect" title="Bootsect">bootsect</a></li>

<li><a href="Fixboot" class="mw-redirect" title="Fixboot">fixboot</a></li>

<li><a href="Fixmbr" class="mw-redirect" title="Fixmbr">fixmbr</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Software_development" title="Software development">Software development</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Break_(command)" class="mw-redirect" title="Break (command)">break</a></li>

<li><a href="Debug_(command)" title="Debug (command)">debug</a></li>

<li><a href="QBasic" title="QBasic">QBasic</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Dpath" title="Dpath">dpath</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_DOS_commands" title="List of DOS commands">List of DOS commands</a></li>

<li><a href="Environment_variable" title="Environment variable">Environment variables</a></li>

<li><a href="Windows_Support_Tools" title="Windows Support Tools">Windows Support Tools</a></li></ul>

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