Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Command Line Utilities in WindowsXP and Windows 2003 Google Search It EventTriggers Allows you to create commands that are triggered by particular entries into the event log.  Cool!  Setx (Windows 2003 only as far as I can tell) Nice in theory but doesn't seem to be available Forfiles Iterates through a set of files fsutil hardlink Great for creating a hardlink (a secondary name for a file in any location) but doesn't appear to have an equivalent delete and doesn't work on directories like the junction.exe does from sysinternals. IIS* (Iisapp, Iisback, Iiscnfg, Iisext, Iisftp, Iisftpdr, Iisreset, Iisvdir, Iisweb) Manages ftp and web sites and directories Irftp Send files over an IR link Netsh :Lots of network configuration stuff Openfiles (More functional on Windows 2003) View/disconnect open files.  For locally open files a reboot is required. Reg Command line registry manipulation Reset session Deletion/reset terminal services session (important for Windows 2000 when you easily run out of sessions because the same user can get multiple sessions. sc Allows control of services similar to the Services MMC snapin SystemInfo Dumps data about the computer such as memory, name, etc. TaskKill/TaskList Controls processes Timeout (Windows 2003 only)/Sleep Pauses the command processor Takeown Gives an administrator ownership of a file Waitfor Allows signal betweens computers... looks like a great means for automating Virtual PC sessions and allowing communication between those sessions. replace /a Copies files that are not already in the destination directory.  Unfortunately replace /s /a is not allowed. 4:56:49 AM   []    comment []

Setx Command Line Google Search It Recently I have an install program that required setting a system environment variable.  The problem was that to do this required setting a registry value and then rebooting.  Yuck!  I then found a command line utility called setenv (named after the UNIX command I believe) that did all this for me (I nearly wrote one too.)  This morning I happened to notice in the help that there is a native windows command line utility called Setx that does the same thing.  Well what do you know!  Unfortunaely this is only available in Windows 2003 from what I can tell although I read it was also in thw WindowsXP reskit. 3:48:50 AM   []    comment []

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