Command to list all available commands in Windows Command Prompt

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I’d like to programmatically get a list of all the available commands in Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe). Is there something like compgen -c in Bash, but for Windows?

Funny... I ran compgen -c in WSL to see what it looked like and the output included Windows programs (together with DLLs) xD — Álvaro González
– Álvaro González, Commented Jul 13, 2019 at 18:14

foxidrive · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-04 02:06:59Z

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This provides CMD specific commands.

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and to page the output use this

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answered Mar 4, 2014 at 2:06

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Mathias Bynens Over a year ago

Thanks. That doesn’t seem to list all available commands, though. Is there a way to include things like con2prt, msinfo32, regsvr32, rundll32 etc.?

Stephan Over a year ago

dir c:\windows\system32\*.exe - but I'm quite sure, that's much more than you want (for example, there is also calc.exe). On the other hand - it IS a list of all available (external) commands - well, to be complete, you have to do it on all folders in your %path%

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