 Hey, what is going on guys root of the knowledge here come back at you with some more batch tutorials now I'm gonna get the windows command line fired up here and show you guys What's going on today now in the last video? We took a look at echo which was a which is displaying. It's almost a command to actually display information We were able to display text. We were able to pass in variables and that sort of thing But uh, that's kind of exactly what I want to talk about. We were actually Passing in information to the echo command because we ran echo without any Arguments or anything after it it displayed echo is on so it'll do something if you don't give anything to it But when you give things to it like this is some text it does something with it Obviously it displays it out onto the screen But see we're passing in something to echo or we're applying more arguments or what we call parameters to the program Now we can do this with a lot of different commands and things like that See we had the dir command quite a while ago and We were in that we would just display the contents of everything At least display the contents of the current directory that we're in so we've got all these things You've got other directories got the parent directories got my desktop and that sort of thing so we can actually pass a whole nother um a Whole nother file system or a whole nother path to the dir command and instead of looking at the current directory in your shell It'll go ahead and display the contents of everything in that Folder that you pass to it So if we passed in dir and then we used a space right after it to denote a whole nother argument set If we did dir desktop It'll display everything in my desktop see directory of see users John Hammond desktop If we didn't normally you would just be using see users John Hammond We're actually giving something new to the program. So that really kind of makes things a little a little interesting Volume is another program that actually use this. It's a it's a VOL or vol Now if we run this without any parameters or arguments you see volume and drive C has no label So by default it's going to use your your Your hard drive that you normally use it's amounted at the C position You normally you're on C position C right here the C colon It'll use that one by default, but if we passed in like the D drive It'll it'll take a look at that one volume and drive D is recovery instead of the one that we were looking at in the C drive We can use E That device doesn't happen to be ready. We can even use ones that don't actually aren't actually set up yet The system cannot find the path specified But all I'm really trying to show you in this video is that you can send in or just supply more arguments or parameters To a command statement to have it act in a different way to have it do something new with What with the information you're giving it and we did that in echo we did with dir just now and we did that with volume so really we can actually even supply some Some of this functionality to the scripts that we write and there's a whole lot we can do with this and it really It's just giving us another alternative to be able to work with information and data So that's all for this video though something real simple because you guys already know what we're working with you Just have been working with it all this time, but thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed this and we'll be looking at arguments more and more later on I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye