What does the single circumflex in the windows cmd shell mean: More?

问题

This might not be really a question related to programming, but i have wondered for a long time, what the following cmd command means....:

Just type a single circumflex in the cmd shell and windows will ask for more... And as long as you enter an even number of circumflexes, windows can't get enough. I have wondered since Vista... is this just some sort of "easter egg" or is there a purpose behind this?

• Philipp

回答1:

It appears appending ^ just lets you continue to write a command in the next line:

C:\Users\Felk>echo ^
More? hello ^
More? world
hello world

Turns out ^ is just the escape character for the windows shell.

C:\Users\Felk>echo |
Syntaxerror.

C:\Users\Felk>echo ^|
|

Also see this answer

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33946226/what-does-the-single-circumflex-in-the-windows-cmd-shell-mean-more