What is command prompt?

• Command prompt is a text based UI where you can give commands to the computer to make your computer do things like opening applications, browsing through files, or perform tasks which we generally do using a graphical interface.

Command prompt is used by

Developers :To compile code run scripts and interact with development tools.

IT professionals :To manage The systems network and infrastructure.

Data scientists and analysts :To manipulate data run scripts and interact with data tools.

Database administrators :To manage and query databases.

• One more reason for using command prompt is automation.
• Automation is a type of technology and software to perform a specific task and functionalities.
• Most of the servers in the world all are Linux based servers. It means in this we use command lines.

What you will learn from this module?

• Introduction to command prompt
• History, Types of OS.
• Why Servers use CLI based OS?
• Command = Command + arguments
• How CMD and OSR are related?
• Understanding the first screen
• Commonly used commands
• Working with folders
• Working with files