These entries
tell you how to use the individual command line switches. You??™ll also discover other kinds of information
you must provide. For example, the
Dir
(directory) command information shown in Figure 2.2
tells you that you can provide a drive letter, followed by a colon, followed by a directory path, and
ending with a filename specification. None of these entries is a command line switch, but they??™re
all important parameters.
Figure 2.2
Sometimes you
provide text input as
well as command line
switches.
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The final section is a list of examples. Only a few commands provide this kind of information,
but it??™s always helpful when they do. The examples come in many forms. The
TaskList
command
provides a list of filters first, so you can see how to get the output you want. It provides actual usage
examples next so you can see what to type at the command line. The point is that most people could
use a command at the command prompt if they knew the simple
/?
command line switch. Go ahead
and try it out now with the
TaskList
and
Dir
commands. You??™ll want to keep the
/?
command line
switch in mind as you read about other commands in this book.
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