Command Prompt

Command prompt is a computing term which may refer to:

  • a feature of the command-line interface, see Command-line interface #Command prompt
  • Command-line interpreter, a kind of text-based user interface, see List of command-line interpreters
  • Command Prompt, or cmd.exe, the command line interpreter in Windows and OS/2 operating systems

Famous quotes containing the words command and/or prompt:

    “How did you get in the Navy? How did you get on our side? Ah, you ignorant, arrogant, ambitious—keeping sixty two men in prison cause you got a palm tree for the work they did. I don’t know which I hate worse, you or that malignant growth that stands outside your door. How did you ever get command of a ship? I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. But where’d they ever scrape you up?”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)