What can I do with "command prompt".?

Question

I would like to know what I can and can not do with command prompt

Answer 1

At the intersection of life and morality stood Command Prompt. In this void, anything is possible. You can check the status of your IP configuration (ipconfig), you can format your drive (format driveletter), and make pretty images in ASCII text (try echo FAIL!).



Only a wise sage dare visit the netherlands of Command Prompt. However, after visiting the abyss, I can tell you it was worth the ride.



cmd is the scalpel to unlocking the mastery of your computer.

Answer 2

This question is far too broad. You're going to need to narrow it down.



For instance, you can run executables in command prompt. Now, through command prompt, I could potentially shutdown a remote computer, code a rootkit, or create a new desktop icon. However, these are all probably a lot of work (except for the first one), and would realistically be done otherwise. Given that command prompt can use built-in executable files, it can pretty much technically do anything.

Answer 3

Well, let me put it this way for you.

The operating system you are using right now (windows) is a GUI (visual interface) for a bunch of commands.



So pretty much anything you do can be translated to a "command".



Therefore, you can pretty much do anything that you do with your moues and keyboard in the commandpromt. Copy files, view files, rename files, etc.



Ofcourse, it gets really complicated and confusing with long paths and names and copying multiple files, etc.



On the other side, the visual interface doesn't always have all the advanced settings the command prompt does.



There are limitations on both sides.



Commandpromt is pretty much how a computer was before there was all this visual stuff with the mouse and folders stuff.

Answer 4

Because of this, I've seen some Christians (especially young ones) so ridiculously devoted to their parents that they refuse to believe that it's moral to disagree with them, even when the parents are wrong or flat out harmful or dangerous. I find this sort of blind obedience creepy. Hope: Nice straw man. Morals may be absolute or not (and I tend to think they're a little more subtle than any sort of categorical imperative view--the one many Christians take--would have them be), but that does not mean *anyone* thinks morals have to depend on a culture. You're conflating culture with evolution, but culture is a sort of local deal and humanity as a whole is not. Thus, we can say that certain cultural practices are immoral without resorting to claiming that a god gave us our morality. C'mon! Your view of "morals *must* come from God" has been dead since at least Nietzsche, and your claim that otherwise anything is permissable is passe.

Answer 5

You can shut down someone else's computer via command prompt, you can watch a hidden text movie in command prompt...You can do alot of fun stuff with it.

Answer 6

Quite a lot actually, I do nearly everything in command prompt.



Check out this tutorial: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial76.html



I like to do all my compiling in the command-line, using MinGW's GCC as a compiler. If I had a c source file called 'main.c', I'd be able to compile it with the command: "gcc main.c".

Answer 7

you can do all the basic functions of windows. everything you do in windows is really being done by command prompt commands in the background. before windows, microsoft was DOS. so basically, command prompt is the DOS version of windows.



http://www.commandpromptcommands.com/

Answer 8

There are a few things that you can't do. For instance you can't see the flash content of some web pages and a few other things.



For instance you can watch movies with "mplayer", or you can organize and listen music with "mpd" or "xmms2", browse web pages with "w3m" or "elinks2", edit advanced documents with "emacs" or "vim" and "LaTeX", do graphic processing with "convert" (from image magik) or with "gimp-fu", read email with "mutt", or newsgroups with "cone", perform 3d rendering with "povray" or "yafray", administrate remote machines with "ssh", configure servers, services, any application, or anything you want, load or unload drivers, start or shutdown processes, change their priorities, admin or edit files, download or upload files, admin databases, play tetris. You can even edit spreadsheets with "sc", check words in a dictionary, or do really advanced mathematics with "matlab", "octave", "scilab", "r", "sage", "maxima", etc...



And with "ssh" you can do any of those task in a remote fashion, even with very slow connections. And if you use a good shell like zsh, it is very easy to do those things.