cmd more? command

Question

what does more? mean when we type
^_^ in the cmd

Answer 1

Hi @moath farhoud ,

In the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) a long command can be spread out over multiple lines if each line's last character is the caret ^ character.

For example:

echo ^  
Hello world! ^  

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Best regards,
Leon

Answer 2

Hi,

The ^ is the escape character. It make the following symbol be treated as ordinary text. It's usually prefixed to the special characters & \ < > ^ |. It could also escape the Carriage Return + Line Feed (CR/LF) at the end of a line to split a line into multiple lines.

In your case ^_ is the same to _ as _ is not a special character and there's no character to be escaped by the second ^. That's why you see the prompt "More?".

Best Regards,
Ian

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