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AmigaDOS commands

  • Addbuffers - Add memory to floppy disk buffers to improve speed
  • Adddatatypes - Activates datatypes or adds another datatype
  • Alias - Assigns a short name to a command
  • Ask - Asks a question in a script (reply y/n). Use IF WARN to test for a yes.
  • Assign - Assign names to directory paths.
  • Avail - Memory availablility
  • Binddrivers - Load device drivers
  • Break - Stop a program (see Status)
  • BRU - BRU is a powerful Hard disk backup and restore utility included with AmigaDOS
  • CD - Change directory
  • ChangeTaskPri - Changes program's execution priority
  • Conclip - Activates clipboard device
  • Copy - Copy files
  • CPU - Changes CPU settings e.g. caches, burst, fastrom
  • Date - Display/change date or time
  • Delete - Delete files
  • Dir - List contents of a directory
  • Diskchange - Tell Amigados that a disk has been swapped in a non-autosensing disk drive
  • Diskcopy - Duplicates disks (resides in System drawer)
  • Diskdoctor- Diskdoctor enables user to salvage information from a corrupted disk
  • Echo - Display text in a script
  • Ed - Edit text files (screen editor)
  • Edit - Edit text files (line editor)
  • Else - Used with IF, if not true, do these commands
  • Endcli - Close CLI console window
  • Endif - End a IF..ELSE..ENDIF block
  • Endshell - Endshell is used to terminate any current Shell/CLI process
  • Endskip - Stops a SKIP branch (for debugging)
  • Eval - Evaluate a simple arithmetic expression
  • Execute - Execute a script or batch file
  • Failat - Change failure limit for scripts (0 - Ok, 5 - Warn, 10 - Error, 20 - Fail)
  • Fault - Display error message from a code
  • Filenote - Attach a comment to a file (see LIST)
  • Format - Initialises Amiga disks (resides in System drawer)
  • Get - Returns contents of local ENV variable
  • Getenv - Return contents of a global environment variable
  • IconX - Enables a script to be run from Workbench.
  • If - If condition is true, execute following commands until an ELSE or ENDIF occurs.
  • Info - Displays information about disks
  • Install - Saves a bootblock to a disk.
  • IPrefs - Initialises preferences files on startup.
  • Join - Join two or more files together.
  • Lab - State a Label to Skip to in a script
  • List - List file details in a directory
  • Loadwb - Display workbench screen
  • Lock - Lock a device from writing
  • MagTape - Controls magnetic tape device
  • Makedir - Create a new directory.
  • MakeLink - Creates a logical link between files
  • More - More is AmigaDOS's ASCII File viewer
  • Mount - Loads and mounts a device
  • Newcli - Open a new CLI console (CON) window
  • NewShell - Open a new Shell console (CON) window
  • NoFastMem - Disable FAST Memory
  • Path - Set or change the program search path
  • Prompt - Change the prompt text
  • Protect - Change the `rwedsp' flags of a file.
  • Quit - Quit a script
  • Relabel - Change name of a disk
  • RemRAD - Remove RAD device from memory
  • Rename - Renames a file
  • RequestChoice - Asks for input via a requester
  • RequestFile - Asks for a filename via ASL file requester
  • Resident - Stores AmigaDOS command in memory
  • Run - Execute a program in the background (multi-task)
  • Rexxmast - Start an Rexx resident process
  • Say - Provides access to the Amigas built in speech facility
  • Search - Search for a string in a file or a file on a disk
  • Set - Sets a local ENV variable
  • Setclock - Load or set the date and time from battery-backed clock
  • Setdate - Set date of a file (see List)
  • Setenv - Change the contents of a environment variable
  • Setfont - Sets console font
  • Setkeyboard - Sets keyboard layout (was SetMap)
  • SetMap - Patches system keyboard the correct code
  • Setpatch - Patch Operating System functions and remove bugs
  • ShowConfig - Identify configuration of Amiga system
  • Skip - Jump to a label in a script (see Lab)
  • Sort - Sorts the FROM file alphabetically
  • Stack - Change/display amount of stack space
  • Status - Display status of running programs
  • Type - Display contents of text file on screen
  • Unset - Remove a local ENV variable
  • UnSetEnv - Remove a global ENV variable
  • Unalias - Remove a short name for a command
  • Version - Display workbench or library version information
  • Wait - Wait for a specified period of time
  • Which - Find where a file is in command path (see Path)
  • Why - Display reason why a previous command failed
Other Commands (not included):
  • AmigaGuide - Displays AmigaGuide documents
  • Installer - Runs installation scripts for applications
  • LoadResource - Loads libraries, device, fonts etc (floppy based systems)


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