Programming
| Command Prompt Codes |
DOS Command Prompt Codes
| $$ | Display the dollar sign, $ |
| $_ | Move to a new line |
| $B | Display the pipe symbol, | |
| $D | Display the current system date |
| $E | ASCII escape character, {ESC} (ASCII code 27) |
| $G | Display the greater-than symbol, > |
| $H | Cause the cursor to backspace, erasing the previous character |
| $L | Display the less-than symbol, < |
| $N | Display the current logged drive letter |
| $P | Display the current logged directory path name |
| $Q | Display the equals symbol, = |
| $T | Display the current system time |
| $V | Display the MS-DOS version number message |
| $Xc | Imbeds the following character "c", verbatim, in the prompt string ("c" is a character, space, comma, or semicolon.) |
Additional Windows 2000/NT Command Prompt Codes
| $A | Display the ampersand symbol, & |
| $C | Display the left parenthesis symbol, ( |
| $F | Display the right parenthesis symbol, ) |
| $S | Display a blank space |
| $V | Display the Windows version number message |
Command Prompt Example
prompt=$_$d$_$t$h$h$h$_$e[1;37;43mMy Computer$e[44m $p$g
Skip a line and display the date. On the next line, display the time but not the 1/100 seconds. On the third line, display the words, "My Computer" (high white text on yellow background) followed by the current directory path and the > symbol (on blue background).
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Page author: Dawn Rorvik (rorvikd@evergreen.edu)
Last modified: 05/20/2003