computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computer, computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and the development of both computer hardware, hardware and softw ...

, start is a

command Command may refer to: Computing * Command (computing), a statement in a computer language * command (Unix), a Unix command * COMMAND.COM, the default operating system shell and command-line interpreter for DOS * Command key, a modifier key on A ...

of the

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

OS/2 OS/2 is a Proprietary software, proprietary computer operating system for x86 and PowerPC based personal computers. It was created and initially developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft, under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci, ...

Microsoft Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

and

ReactOS ReactOS is a Free and open-source software, free and open-source operating system for i586/amd64 personal computers that is intended to be binary-code compatibility, binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers developed for Wind ...

command-line interpreter A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with software via commands each formatted as a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as an interactive and more user-friendly alternativ ...

cmd.exe (and some versions of COMMAND.COM) to start programs or

batch file A batch file is a Scripting language, script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It consists of a series of Command (computing), commands to be executed by the command-line interpreter, stored in a plain text file. A batch file may contain a ...

s or to open files or directories using the default program. is not available as a standalone program. The underlying Win32 API is . The command is also one of the basic commands implemented in the Keyboard Monitor (KMON) of the DEC

RT-11 RT-11 (Real-time 11) is a discontinued small, low-end, single-user real-time operating system for the full line of Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 16-bit computers. RT-11 was first implemented in 1970. It was widely used for real-time compu ...

operating system. The

TOPS-10 TOPS-10 System (Timesharing / Total Operating System-10) is a discontinued operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for the PDP-10 (or DECsystem-10) mainframe computer family. Launched in 1967, TOPS-10 evolved from the earlier "Mo ...

and TOPS-20 operating systems also provide a start command. It is used to start a program in memory at a specified address.

Other environments

* 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 and run-mailcap. * On

Cygwin Cygwin ( ) is a free and open-source Unix-like environment and command-line interface (CLI) for Microsoft Windows. The project also provides a software repository containing open-source packages. Cygwin allows source code for Unix-like operati ...

, the command is implemented as the executable. * In

PowerShell PowerShell is a shell program developed by Microsoft for task automation and configuration management. As is typical for a shell, it provides a command-line interpreter for interactive use and a script interpreter for automation via a langu ...

, the Invoke-Item cmdlet is used to invoke an executable or open a file. * On

Apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

macOS macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. With ...

and MorphOS, the corresponding command is

open 

Open or OPEN may refer to:

 Music
* Open (band), Australian pop/rock band
*  The Open (band), English indie rock band
*  ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969
*  ''Open'' (Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall, and Edward Vesala album), 1979
*  ''Open'' (Go ...

. * On Stratus OpenVOS it is start_process.

Syntax

Windows, ReactOS

start title" D path I/B] MIN/MAX] WAIT ommand/program arameters"title" Title of the window. Path Specifies the startup directory. I Use the original environment given to cmd.exe, instead of the current environment. B Starts the command or program without creating any window. MIN Starts with a minimized window. MAX Starts with a maximized window. WAIT Starts the command or program and waits for its termination. command Specifies the parameters to be given to the command or program.

Examples

Windows, ReactOS

C:\>start notepad file.txt C:\>start "C:\My Music\My Song.mp3" C:\>start www.wikipedia.org

References

External links

start , Microsoft Docs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Start OS/2 commands ReactOS commands Windows administration

Other environments

Syntax

Windows, ReactOS

Examples

Windows, ReactOS

See also

References

Further reading

External links