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== On Windows ==
== On Windows ==
If you are on Windows, you have probably never used a command line in your life. Fear not; that using the CLI is hard is a stereotype. It is ''not'' true in particular for BotW-related tools, which are fairly simple to manipulate.
If you are on Windows, you have probably never used a command line in your life. Fear not; that using the CLI is hard is a stereotype. It is ''not'' true in particular for BotW-related tools, which are fairly simple to manipulate. Tools will almost always have documentation that tells you how to use them too.


=== Opening a command line ===
=== Opening a command line ===
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'''and press Enter to run the command''' and copy C:/source_file to C:/destination.
'''and press Enter to run the command''' and copy C:/source_file to C:/destination.
==== On options ====
What about optional parameters? And what if a command takes a large amount of parameters? To avoid requiring the user to memorise the argument order when there are too many, CLI utilities typically use options.
Options are just another way to give parameters. They almost always have the following form: <code>--optionname option_value</code>, can usually be combined and reordered, and are usually optional.


==== On paths ====
==== On paths ====
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