windows run and command line commands

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Windows Run andCommand Line

CommandsOperating Systems Laboratory

Amir Saman Memaripour


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Outline Windows run commands

Windows command line commands


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Windows Run CommandsChapter One


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Command Line CommandsChapter Two


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Schedule Tasks Schedule a task at a

particular time

Schedule a RecurrentTask

See the tasks scheduled

Schedule a task on someother day

Schedule tasks to runevery day

Delete Scheduled Tasks

At command, as the nameindicates, can be used to scheduleapplications at specified time anddate. This is a built-in command inWindows OS and does not requireany separate software to beinstalled on the computer.


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Schedule a Task at a ParticularTime

To schedule a task we just need to specify the time andthe command for the task we need to run. For example,if you want to shutdown your computer at 11PM todaythen you can do this by running the below command.

At 11:00:00PM shutdown -r


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Schedule a Recurrent TaskWe can schedule tasks that run recurrently once in a

week or once in a month. We can use/everyswitch forthis purpose. Lets say you want to automatically rundefragmentation on one of the drives once in every

week. This can be done by running the belowcommand

At 10:00:00AM /every:Monday defrag c:


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See the Tasks ScheduledWe can see the list of scheduled tasks just by

running Atcommand without any parameters.

C:\>at

Status ID Day Time Command Line

------------------------------------------------1 Each M 10:00 AM defrag c:


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Schedule a Task on SomeOther Day

We can use /next switch to schedule tasks for a differentday. For example to run defragmentation on C: drive onnext Thursday you can run the below command.

At 11:00:00AM /next:Thursday defrag c:


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Schedule tasks to run everyday

Using /every switch we can schedule a task to be runevery day. For example to shutdown your computerautomatically every day at 11PM you can create a taskusing the below command.

At 10:00:00AM /every:M,T,W,TH,F,SA,SU shutdown -r


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Delete Scheduled TasksWe can delete scheduled tasks from the database by

using/deleteswitch. We need to pass the id of the taskwe need to delete. We can see the id for each task byrunning At command without any parameters. For

example to delete the task with the id 1 we need to runthe below command.

At 1 /delete


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Set file attributes

from command line

Archive attribute

Read only attribute

Hidden attribute

System file attribute

We can use attrib command toset/unset file attributes. Let us seehow to use this command tomanipulate different file attributesfrom windows command line(CMD).Take a sample file example.doc


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Archive Attribute To set archive attribute for the file example.doc:

attrib +a example.doc

To unset archive attribute:

attrib -a example.doc


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Read only Attribute To set read only attribute:

attrib +r example.doc

To unset read only attribute:

attrib -r example.doc


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Hidden Attribute To make the file hidden :

attrib +h example.doc

To remove the hidden attribute:

attrib -h example.doc


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System file Attribute To set system file attribute:

attrib +s example.doc

To unset system file attribute:

attrib -s example.doc


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Copy commandUsing copycommand, we can copyfiles from one directory to anotherdirectory. This command is similarto the Linux cp command, but itdoes not match with the fullfunctionality of cp.Windows copy command can beused to copy files only, we cantcopy directories.


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