One of the useful features of the Windows Command Prompt (also known as CMD, CMD line or Command line) is creating, or adding, a text file to the current directory. This is especially useful if you ...

File creation is perhaps one of the most trivial tasks you perform on your computer almost every day. If you’re a Windows user, you probably do it via the graphical interface. Although this approach ...

Selects a file (or set of files) and executes a command on that file. This is helpful for batch jobs. /M searchmask Searches files according to a searchmask. The default searchmask is '*' . /S ...

I have a script for Maya and Photoshop that I'm trying to make compatible for Windows users. Maya's MEL scripting lets you send system commands so I have a simple command line script for OS X that ...

Every version of Windows includes its own command processor, Cmd.exe. Opening that application gives you access to the full range of command-line tools and utilities in Windows. The slow way to open ...

Some files force programs to perform operations that require administrator rights. As an example, if you received a ZIP file containing several business spreadsheets ...

You can prevent or stop Command Prompt from closing immediately after opening or executing a batch file in Windows 11/10 in the following three ways: By using the Pause command. By using the cmd /k ...