BASIC COMMAND

PROMP
WHAT IS COMMAND PROMPT (CMD)
• Command Prompt is not built only on advanced commands, but
also on simple ones, designed to perform basic operations. In
this article, we show you how to change the directory in CMD,
change the drive, see the contents of a directory, how to
rename, copy, and delete files and folders, and also how to
launch an application from the Command Prompt.
How to change the
directory in CMD (CD in
Command Prompt)

• The first command from

the list is CD (Change
Directory). This
command enables you
to change the current
directory or, in other
words, to navigate to
another folder from
your PC.
How to copy files in CMD (COPY in
Command Prompt)
• The COPY command allows you to copy files from one location
to another. To use this command, type:
• For example, let's use this command to copy
the Image0.bmp file from the Digital_Citizen folder located on
the D: drive to the D:\Digital_Citizen\Digital_Citizen_Tests\ folder.
To make things more interesting, we want the file to be
named Testing_Picture1.gif. To do all that, we must type the
command:
How to delete files
with Command
Prompt (DEL in
CMD)

• The DEL (Delete) is used

to delete files from the
folders you have
created. To delete all the
files from a folder, you
can run the command
How to get help in the
Command Prompt (HELP in
CMD)

• To access help in
the Command Prompt, you can
use the HELP command: