start (command)
 The ReactOS start command | |
| Developer(s) | IBM, Microsoft, ReactOS Contributors |
|---|---|
| Operating system | OS/2, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS |
| Type | Command |
In computing, start is a command of the IBM OS/2,[1] Microsoft Windows[2] and ReactOS[3] command-line interpreter cmd.exe[4] (and some versions of COMMAND.COM) to start programs or batch files or to open files or directories using the default program. start is not available as a standalone program. The underlying Win32 API is ShellExecute.
The command is also one of the basic commands implemented in the Keyboard Monitor (KMON) of the DEC RT-11 operating system.[5]
The TOPS-10[6] and TOPS-20[7] operating systems also provide a start command. It is used to start a program in memory at a specified address.
Other environments
START command of RT-11SJ displayed on a VT100.- Typical Unix shells (bash, etc.) have no built-in registry of file types and associated default applications. Linux command-line tools with similar functions include
xdg-open[8] andrun-mailcap. - On Cygwin, the command is implemented as the
cygstartexecutable.[9] - In PowerShell, the
Invoke-Itemcmdlet is used to invoke an executable or open a file.[10] - On Apple macOS, the corresponding command is
open. - On Stratus OpenVOS it is
start_process.[11]
Syntax
Windows, ReactOS
start "title" [/D path] [options] "command" [parameters]
Examples
Windows, ReactOS
C:\>start notepad file.txt
C:\>start "C:\My Music\My Song.mp3"
C:\>start www.wikipedia.org
See also
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Guide to Windows Commands
References
- ^ http://www.jatomes.com/Help/Os2Cmd.php#START
- ^ https://www.computerhope.com/starthlp.htm
- ^ https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/base/shell/cmd/start.c
- ^ Start - TechNet, Microsoft
- ^ http://paleoferrosaurus.com/beta/documents/rt11help.html#START
- ^ TOPS-10 Operating System Commands Manual (pdf). Digital Equipment Corporation. August 1980. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "TOPS-20 Command manual" (PDF).
- ^ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/
- ^ "cygstart man page on Cygwin". www.polarhome.com.
- ^ https://ss64.com/nt/start.html
- ^ http://stratadoc.stratus.com/vos/19.1.0/r098-19/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/r098-19.pdf
Further reading
- Kathy Ivens; Brian Proffit (1993). OS/2 Inside & Out. Osborne McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0078818714.
- Frisch, Æleen (2001). Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference. O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0-596-00148-3.