The cat command in Linux is used to concatenate files and print on the standard output. The type command is a Windows cat equivalent that works across a command-line prompt (CMD) and a Windows PowerShell. In this short note i will show how to concatenate files and how to print the contents of a text […]
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PowerShell: Set Variable to String, Null (Unset) & Print
In this short note i am showing how to define and print variables is Windows PowerShell. Particularity i will show how to set a variable to a string value, how to define a variable directly in a string and how to unset variable by setting it to Null. At the end of the each example […]
Windows: `Watch` Equivalent – CMD & PowerShell
The watch command in Linux is used to execute a command periodically and show the output. This is extremely useful if you need to track any changes in the output of a repeatedly executed command. There is no direct equivalent for the watch command in Windows, however the same result can be achieved using the […]
Windows: MD5/SHA256 CheckSum – Built-In Utility
In Windows you can make a checksum of a file without installing any additional software. For this you can use the certUtil – built-in command-line utility that works both in Windows CMD and Powershell. In this note i will show the examples of how to make md5sum and sha256sum of a file in Windows from […]
JFrog Artifactory: Download Artifact using cURL
JFrog’s Artifactory is a binary repository manager. The artifacts from Artifactory can be downloaded using REST API. In this note i am showing how to download an artifact (simple file.zip) from generic Artifactory repository using curl command from the command line in Linux or from the PowerShell in Windows.
Windows: Zip | Unzip – Command Line
In the past it was not possible to create Zip files and Unzip archives in Windows without installing third-party programs like WinZip and 7-Zip. But now Windows has a built-in capability to Zip files and folders and Unzip archives from the command line using PowerShell. Starting from Windows 8 with PowerShell 3.0 and .NET Framework […]
Windows: Install Telnet Client – CMD & PowerShell
The telnet client in Windows is disabled by default. Before using the telnet command in Windows it is needed to enable the telnet client, otherwise you’ll get a result similar to the below messages: CMD: ‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. PowerShell: The term ‘telnet’ is […]
[SOLVED] CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories
If you try to cd to a network drive from the Windows CMD, you will get the following error: CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories Instead of cd command in CMD you can use a pushd command, that creates a drive mapping to the network share and then changes into a path […]
PowerShell: Clear History of Previous Commands
This is not obvious, but the Clear-History command in PowerShell won’t clear the history of the previous commands. The Clear-History clears only the commands entered during the current session, that could be displayed by the Get-History command. To clear the history in PowerShell, it needs to delete the file in which the previous commands are […]
Windows: PowerShell – Download File From URL
Windows PowerShell can be used for downloading files via HTTP and HTTPS protocols. In PowerShell, as an alternative to the Linux curl and wget commands, there is an Invoke-WebRequest command, that can be used for downloading files from URLs. In this note i am showing how to download a file from URL using the Invoke-WebRequest […]