1. Explain a few reasons why IT professionals (system admins especially) need to

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1. Explain a few reasons why IT professionals (system admins especially) need to know how to use the command line interface in Windows?
2.What directory does it place you in by default when you open a command window? What is the significance of this directory?
3.Open a command line as Administrator
Do a directory listing of the C:Windows and C:Program Files directories on your system.

What did you type to perform the listing?
4. Create a directory in the C:TEMP drive called April6
Move your cursor into that directory.

Create directories in C:TempApril6 called dir1 and dir2
Create files in C:TempApril6 called file1 and file2 (using the GUI)

Copy file1 into C:TempApril6dir1
Move file2 into C:TempApril6dir2 and rename it to file3

What did you type to copy and move these files?
5 .Delete file3
Copy C:Windowssetupact.log to C:TempApril6

Look at the contents of setupact.log

What would you type use to see the contents of the file one page at a time?

Explanation / Answer

1. A CLI is used whenever a large vocabulary of commands or queries, coupled with a wide (or arbitrary) range of options, can be entered more rapidly as text than with a pure GUI. This is typically the case with operating system command shells. CLIs are also used by systems with insufficient resources to support a graphical user interface. Some computer language systems (such as Python, Forth, LISP and many dialects of BASIC) provide an interactive command-line mode to allow for experimentation.
CLIs are often used by programmers and system administrators, in engineering and scientific environments, and by technically advanced personal computer users. CLIs are also popular among people with visual disability, since the commands and responses can be displayed using Refreshable Braille displays.
A program that implements such a text interface is often called a command-line interpreter, command processor or shell, whereby the term shell, often used to describe a command-line interpreter, can be in principle any program that constitutes the user-interface, including fully graphically oriented ones—for example, the default Windows GUI is created by a shell program named EXPLORER.EXE, as defined in the SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE line in the WIN.INI configuration file. Examples of command-line interpreters include the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, bash, etc.), the historical CP/M CCP, and MS-DOS/IBM-DOS/DR-DOS's COMMAND.COM, as well as the OS/2 and the Windows CMD.EXE programs, the latter groups being based heavily on DEC's RSX and RSTS CLIs. Under most operating systems, it is possible to replace the default shell program by more specialized or powerful alternatives; some widespread examples include 4DOS for DOS, 4OS2 for OS/2, and 4NT or Take Command for Windows.
2. it defaults to your user profile home directory.

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