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title: "What are commands?"  
description: "What are commands?"  
author: "Allen Scott"  
published: 2017-11-13  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30459/what-are-commands  
category: "programming"  
tags: ["software"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are commands?

What are [commands](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/817/what-is-the-use-of-dbcc-commands)?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

**Command** A command is the set of programs that perform some particular task in a computer's system. It triggers when a user do any work or perform some particular task. Below be describe some UNIX shell based commands ls -l -t -r /bin ls -ltr /bin The following command displays the contents of the files. The cat command derived from the word concatenation. It concatenates file2 to file1. cat file1.txt file2.txt \


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