Command Prompt
Sign in to save', also known as Command Prompt or Windows Command Processor, is a shell program on later versions of Windows (NT and CE families), OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, and ReactOS. In some versions of Windows (CE .NET 4.2, CE 5.0 and Embedded CE 6.0) it is referred to as the Command Processor Shell'. Implementation differs between operating systems, but with significant consistency of behavior and available commands.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Command Prompt ()
- Software.logo
- Command prompt icon (windows).png
- Software.logo_size
- 48px
- Software.screenshot_size
- 100px
- Software.caption
- Command Prompt in Windows 11
- Software.developer
- Microsoft, IBM, ReactOS contributors
- Software.other_names
- Windows Command Processor
- Software.replaces
- COMMAND.COM
- Software.platform
- IA-32, x86-64, ARM (and historically DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, and Itanium)
- Software.genre
- Command-line interpreter
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Use
- Desktop integration
- Concurrent piping
- Command separator
- Command line limit
- Escaping special characters
- Internal commands
- OS/2
- Windows NT family
- Windows CE
- ReactOS
- Comparison with COMMAND.COM
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
', also known as Command Prompt or Windows Command Processor, is a shell program on later versions of Windows (NT and CE families), OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, and ReactOS. In some versions of Windows (CE .NET 4.2, CE 5.0 and Embedded CE 6.0) it is referred to as the Command Processor Shell'. Implementation differs between operating systems, but with significant consistency of behavior and available commands.
Older, related operating systems, DOS and Windows 9x, provided as the shell. replaced in the Windows product line with the introduction of NT. Current versions of Windows include PowerShell as an alternative shell that runs side-by-side with .