Tutorial: Introduction to the Command Line

1. Type dir and press <ENTER> again at the command prompt to get the directory listing.

Look at the list on your screen. All the names that have <DIR> beside them are directories.  The others are files. The size of the files is also displayed. You can see a list of the files in another directory by changing to that directory, and then using the dir command again.

2. Type the following commands:
md John <ENTER>
md Peter <ENTER>

These commands create subdirectories called John and Peter. Check if the directory has been created by listing the directories:

3. Type dir <ENTER>

You can see that the two subdirectories have been created on the C-Drive.

4. Type dir /AD <ENTER>

This will list only the directories and not the files: