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Built-in commands:
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ASSOC
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BREAK
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CALL
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CD, CHDIR
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CLS
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COLOR
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COPY
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DEL, ERASE
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DIR
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DATE
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ECHO
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ELSE
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ENDLOCAL
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EXIT
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FOR
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FTYPE
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GOTO
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IF
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MD, MKDIR
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MKLINK
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MOVE
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PATH
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PAUSE
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POPD
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PROMPT
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PUSHD
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RD, RMDIR
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REN, RENAME
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REM
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SET
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SETLOCAL
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SHIFT
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START
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TIME
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TITLE
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TYPE
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VER
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VERIFY
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VOL
Table Of Contents
0
Introduction
1
How a command line is interpreted
2
Batch reloading
3
Environment variables
4
Switches
5
Error level
6
String processing
7
Command-line arguments
8
Wildcards
9
User input
10
%~ (percent tilde)
11
Functions
12
Calculation
13
Finding files
14
Keyboard shortcuts
15
Paths
16
Arrays
17
Perl one-liners
18
Limitations
19
Built-in commands
20
External commands
21
Legal & credits