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

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