Windows 7 Portable Command Guide: MCTS 70-680, and MCITP 70-685 and 70-686

Chapter 3. Using Basic Commands

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Understanding folders and directories

• Understanding paths

• Viewing files and folders with dir

• Changing the path with cd

• Using drag and drop to the Command Prompt window

• Deleting folders with rd

• Creating folders with md

• Controlling output with more

• Redirecting output

• Using exit

Understanding Folders and Directories

The contents of Windows disks are organized into folders. In the early days of MS-DOS, these folders were called directories, but as the graphical user interface became prominent, the term folders became much more common, in part because the icon looks like a file folder.

Figure 3-1 shows folders within ...