SOUTH EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

COLLEGE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

National Highway, Crossing Rubber, Tupi, 9505
South Cotabato, Philippines

Name: Gerson A. Caga Week: 6

Instructor: Dennis Rham S. Manceras BSIT-BA
Personal Challenge
1. In your own words. Explain the basic functionalities and why Command lines,
Command prompt, and system shells are being use?
In command lines, you can navigate through records and folders on your
compute, In Command Provoke or CMD is a command line mediator, in which
the client interatomic with command incite through its command-line interface
and A shell is special client program which give an interface to client to utilize
working framework administrations. Shell acknowledge human discernable
commands from client and change over them into something which part can get
it. It could be a command dialect translator that execute commands examined
from input gadgets such as consoles or from files.
Laboratory Challenge
2. Research the command prompt command and define their functions.

CMD
command Description Windows version  

bitsadmin Creates and monitors downloads and uploads. 10/8/7/Vista  

break Interrupts Ctrl + C checking in DOS, allowing you to stop All Win/DOS  
processes in the old operating system. Only available for
compatibility reasons in Windows.

call Calls a batch file within another batch file. The command All Win/DOS  
has no effect if entered directly into CMD instead of in a
batch file.

cd Displays the current directory and lets you switch to other All Win/DOS  
directories. With the parameter /D plus drive and path
specification, you can also switch drives. Use cd.. to
switch to a higher directory (has the same function as the
chdir command).

chcp Changes the current code page (character set table) or All Win/DOS  
shows the page count of the current code page.
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COLLEGE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
National Highway, Crossing Rubber, Tupi, 9505
South Cotabato, Philippines

CMD
command Description Windows version  

chdir Displays the current directory and lets you switch to other All Win/DOS  
directories. With the parameter /D plus drive and path
specification, you can also switch drives. Use chdir.. to
switch to a higher directory (has the same function as the
cd command).

choice Creates a selection list: typical example is the selection of All Win (not XP)/DOS  
yes (Y) or no (N), which is created with /C YN. With the
parameter /M you can add an explanatory message for
the user.

clip Forwards the result of a command to the clipboard. For clip) or the content of a 10/8/7/Vista
example, you can copy the directory structure (dir file (clip < filename) to
the clipboard.

cls Clears the content of the screen. All Win/DOS  

cmd Starts CMD.EXE. 10/8/7/Vista/XP  

color Changes the background (first value) and text color 10/8/7/Vista/XP  
(second value) of the command prompt. The color lies
between 0 (black) and F (white).

command Starts CMD.COM. 32-bit/DOS  

date Displays the current date and allows you to change it. All Win/DOS  
With the parameter /T the date is shown without the option
to change.

debug Starts debug, a program that can test and modify 32-bit/DOS  
programs within the command prompt.

dir Displays all folders and files within the current directory. All Win/DOS  
You can restrict the output by attributes (/A), simplify the
list (/B), or display all subdirectories and their files (/S).

doskey Creates macros, recalls commands, and edits command All Win/DOS  
input.
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COLLEGE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
National Highway, Crossing Rubber, Tupi, 9505
South Cotabato, Philippines

CMD
command Description Windows version  

dosshell Opens the DOS shell, a graphical file management tool. In 95/DOS  
Windows, the DOS shell is replaced by Windows Explorer.

echo Displays a message and is mainly used within scripts and All Win/DOS  
batch files.

edit Starts the MS-DOS editor, with which you can create text 32-bit/DOS  
files.

edlin Creates and edits text files within the command prompt. 32-bit/DOS  

exit Ends CMD.EXE or CMD.COM. All Win/DOS  

fasthelp Displays helpful information about commands. DOS  

3. Research the difference of windows Power Shell vs Command Prompt

 One of the biggest differences is that PowerShell uses cmdlets rather
than commands. Cmdlets place registry management and Windows
Management Instrumentation within the administrative reach of users.
In contrast, Command Prompt is confined to much more simple
commands.