Windows® XP Under the Hood

Appendix D. CMD and Batch File Language Reference

The CMD Command Line

The format of the CMD command line is

cmd [/a | /u] [/q] [/d] [/t:bf] [/e:on|off] [/f:on|off] [/v:on|off] [[/s] [/c | /k] command] 

The options are listed in Table D.1.

Table D.1. CMD Command-Line Options

Option	Description
/a	Causes standard output to use ANSI encoding.
/u	Causes standard output to use Unicode encoding.
/q	Turns batch file echo default to off.
/d	Disables execution of AutoRun commands defined in the Registry.
/t:bf	Two digits set the background (window) and foreground (text) colors for the window. For example, /t:1e specifies yellow text on a blue background. The color values are listed in Table 11.5 on page 485.
/e	Enables or disables the command extensions. ...