What is the difference between internal and external commands?

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What is the difference between internal and external
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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / naveen badam

Internal commands are the commands that are executed
directly by the shell. These commands will not have a
separate process running for each.
External commands are the commands that are executed by the
kernal. These commands will have a process id running for
it.

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / preeti rajashekhar kottalagi

Internal commands are stored in the cmd.exe command
interpreter, ex. Dir
External commands correspond to a .com or .cmd file, ex.
Robocopy

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / rajni

INTERNAL COMMAND IS EASILY EXECUTED BY USER
EXTERNAL COMMANDS IS NO EASILY USE BY USER

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / pravendra singh

Shell does not start a seperate process to run "Internal
command".
while "External command" required shell to fork exec a new
process.

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / roushan prasad

The commans of Dos are programmed in a
command file named 'command.com'
....
while some commands are not programmed
into this command file; i dont knw y
the commands that are programmed into the
command.com file are referred to as internal
Dos commands while those dat are not listed
in command.com file are referred to as
External Dos commands and they requires
additional file to process them while internal
commands doesnt require any additional file

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / vikas negi

all the internal commands are build in the shell and they
are stored in shell. they all are like DOS commands these
commands are executed by the shell.

all external commands are binary in it self external
commands are can be removed by the user and these commands
are executed by the kernal.

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / kasam

in MS-DOS there are two ways commands are executed. An Internal command, which is a command embedded into the command.com file, and an external command, which is not embedded into command.com and therefore requires a separate file to be used.

For example, if your computer does not have fdisk.exe and you try using the fdisk command, you would receive an error "Bad command or file name." Fdisk is an external command that will only work if fdisk.exe, or in some cases, fdisk.com, is present.

However, as long as MS-DOS is running on your computer internal commands such as the cd command will always be available and does not require any other files to run.

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / ali

internal commands that are executed directly by shell

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / jitesh kumar

Internal command are those command which is executed by the command.com or external command are those command which is not executed by command.com

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What is the difference between internal and external commands? ..

Answer / raulli ranswal

those command's who's predefind on command.sys are internal command.

external was opposite of internal..

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