Upgrading Your Windows CMD Command Prompt and CMD Commands

• Combine the power of the command line with the ease of use of Explorer. Manipulate files at the command prompt and graphically see the results, and drag and drop files into tab windows, other applications, or the desktop.
• Take Command is compatible with your existing Windows CMD commands and batch files, while adding thousands of new features.
• Customize Take Command, including multiple themes, colors, menus, toolbars, status bar, and windows (docked, autohide, or detached).
• Create and debug your batch scripts in a fraction of the time with the integrated editor and batch file debugger.
• It's fast - 20-200% faster at displaying command line output than the standard Windows CMD prompt.
• Take Command even runs your existing CMD batch files faster than the CMD command prompt.
• Be immediately more productive with your interactive prompt and batch file programming tasks thanks to the integrated and familiar environment.
• Reduce your learning and development time with the consistent command syntax.
• Speed your development time and reduce syntax errors with the comprehensive help (including context-sensitive popup syntax help).
• The user interface is available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. (Online help is currently in English only.)

• You can run multiple Windows console (command prompt) and GUI applications simultaneously in tabbed windows, including our own Take Command Console (TCC), CMD, bash and PowerShell.
• The optional integrated file explorer allows you to examine directories and drag and drop files to the tabbed console windows.
• The TCC scripting language is an extensive superset of the CMD command prompt commands, with 182 internal commands, 290 internal functions, and 177 system variables. Almost all of the Windows CMD commands (e.g. DIR, COPY, DEL, START, etc.) are enhanced with hundreds of additional options. And TCC adds more than 145 new commands. Take Command can usually do in one or two lines what requires dozens of lines at CMD prompts (if it can do it at all).
• The TCC scripting language includes a complete set of flow control structures including IF-Then-Else, DO and FOR loops, SWITCH, subroutines, batch libraries, etc.
• Create and debug your batch scripts in a fraction of the time with the integrated graphical IDE. The IDE includes tabbed edit windows and a sophisticated batch file debugger with single stepping, breakpoints, syntax coloring, tooltips, bookmarks, tabbed variable and watch windows. Windows batch file programming has never been easier or more powerful!
• The built-in screen scrollback buffer lets you review or print output from past commands, and find text in any tab window.
• Use the programmable tabbed toolbar to create up to 20 tabs with up to 50 toolbar buttons on each tab. Toolbar buttons can start new tabs or windows, or send commands or text to existing tabs.
• Redefine your commands with aliases, create new commands and functions for your regular tasks, and assign frequently used commands to a single keystroke.
• Create your own internal user-defined functions by combining variables, functions, and commands.
• Environment variable handling is greatly enhanced, including nested variables, delayed expansion, indirect variables, multidimensional array variables and read and write access to system, user, and volatile variables in the Windows registry.
• Select or exclude files by date, time, size, owner, description, and extended wildcards or regular expressions for extraordinary flexibility in file management.
• Specify multiple filenames for most file processing commands (i.e., COPY, DEL, MOVE, etc.), or optionally the name of a file that contains the filename arguments. (COPY even supports multiple targets as well as multiple sources.)
• Take Command includes a wide variety of redirection types, including redirecting and piping to STDERR, "here-document" and "here-string" redirection, and TEE and Y pipe fittings.
• Browse your command line and directory history, filename and directory completion, and use numerous cut and paste options (even with console applications that have no internal cut and paste support) with the advanced line editor.
• Customize filename completion for any internal or external command or alias. This allows Take Command to intelligently select and display filenames based on the command line you are entering.
• The optional input window (with full undo/redo) allows you to create and edit commands before sending them to the active tabbed window (console or GUI).
• Send keystrokes to any window (tabbed, console or GUI).
• Synchronize directories (even UNC sharenames and FTP servers).
• Take Command includes the best text and binary file viewer available for Windows, including bidirectional scrolling, hex listings, fixed and floating rulers, grid lines, extensive searching and printing features, and much more.
• Find and navigate to any directory on your system by entering only part of its name with extended directory searches.
• Customize your directory listings with the internal PDIR (programmable DIR) command.
• Colorize your command prompt output with the built-in ANSI x3.64 text support.
• Take Command includes internal compression and extraction commands for GZIP, TAR, and ZIP files.
• You can access FTP, TFTP and HTTP (including SSL and SSH) directories and files in all command line file-handling commands (COPY, DEL, MOVE, etc.).
• Monitor your system's hardware and software events, and execute tasks when an event is triggered. You can monitor directory and file changes, the clipboard, Windows event logs, network connections, services, processes, and USB and Firewire connections.
• Send SMTP, SMPP, and SNPP messages from your batch files.
• Query the WMI (Windows Management Interface) to retrieve system configuration information.
• Send commands to the Windows Taskbar.
• The OSD command can display floating text (without a window) on your monitor (like TV or monitor setup prompts).
• Write your own internal commands or variables with plugins using C++ or Delphi, or take advantage of the many third-party plugins available for Take Command.
• Expand your scripts with the internal support for Perl, Ruby, REXX, Python, Tcl/tk, and any Active Scripting language. You can even combine multiple languages in your batch scripts.
• And many thousands more -- see our extensive online help for full details. 

The default Windows command shell CMD has always been extremely limited in ability compared to the shells available in other operating systems such as Linux (which has bash, tcsh, zsh, etc.). And Windows CMD commands haven't changed significantly since their first appearance in Windows NT 3.1 (which was released way back in 1993). Because of these Windows CMD prompt commands limitations, users have been forced to use the GUI for inappropriate tasks, or to write programs to perform simple tasks that CMD commands should have been able to handle (either from the CMD command prompt or in a batch file).

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