Description:
Take Command is a comprehensive interactive GUI and command line environment that makes using the Windows command prompt and creating batch files easy and far more powerful. Take Command displays your command line applications in tabbed windows, with optional Explorer-style integration for a visual look at your folders. Take Command includes hundreds of major enhancements to the command line and CMD commands such as COPY, DEL, and DIR, and adds more than 140 new commands, 460 internal variables and functions, a batch file IDE / debugger, and thousands of other features. Command Line Features:
· Modify and re-execute previous commands with a powerful command line editor
· Copy, delete, move, and rename groups of files and directories, not just individual ones
· Extended directory searches allow you to change to a directory anywhere on your system by entering only part of its name
· Quickly locate files or text within files anywhere on your system
· Built-in file viewer includes scrolling, search, and print capabilities
· Select or exclude files by date, time, size, and/or extended wildcards for extraordinary flexibility in file management
· Redefine commands, create new commands and functions for your regular tasks, even assign frequently used commands to a single keystroke
· Direct access to FTP, TFTP and HTTP (including SSL) directories and files in all file-handling commands
· Complete configuration adjustment, either through interactive dialogs or on the command line
· File descriptions up to 511 characters long provide information that can't fit in a filename
Batch File Features:
· Batch debugger with singlestepping, breakpoints, syntax coloring, bookmarks, popup variable windows, variable watch windows, and editing
· An improved batch language adds subroutines, IF/THEN/ELSE logic, DO loops, SWITCH statements, error and exception handling, and more than 130 internal commands, while retaining compatibility with batch files written for CMD
· More than 130 built-in variables include system configuration, device status, network drive detection, and free memory and disk space
· More than 200 variable functions assist with manipulation and display of strings, characters, numbers, date and time, file names, etc
Windows Features:
· Start graphical and character-mode applications with ease - even run most console programs in the Take Command window
· Built-in screen scrollback buffer lets you review or print output from past commands at any time
· Customizable toolbar gives you quick access to frequently used commands and applications
· Find File dialog lets you search quickly for files or text, anywhere on your system - or search from the command line with the new FFIND command
· Dialogs, accessible from the Options and Utilities menus, for editing environment variables, aliases, file descriptions, and startup parameters
· New commands such as ACTIVATE, MSGBOX, and QUERYBOX that allow you to use GUI features and control GUI applications from your batch files |
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