Why is the edit command missing in Windows?

The 64-bit versions of Windows do not support the edit command in the Windows command line. If you need to edit files from the command line, we suggest using the notepad command from the command line as shown in the example below.

notepad hope.txt

Running the above command would edit the hope.txt file if it exists or create a new file called hope.txt in notepad. Once the file is saved, that file is created in your current directory.