gHacks technology news » cmd http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Nirsoft Command Line Tool http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/02/nirsoft-command-line-tool/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/02/nirsoft-command-line-tool/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:35:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/02/nirsoft-command-line-tool/ Nircmd is a impressive command line tool considering its size of just 29 Kilobytes. It can be used to launch an incredible amount of commands from the Windows command line or by utilizing the program from a batch file. The best option would be to copy it into a system path folder so that the command line tool could be executed from any directory.

The website of the developer contains the download link but also samples of the functionality of the command line tool. The basic command for the tool is nircmd command parameters. There are more than 80 commands to chose from very specific ones like changing the system volume to advanced commands that manipulate Registry entries or are execute on remote computer systems.

A practical example that shows the complexity of the command tool would be the command to turn off the computer system which can be done with nircmd.exe exitwin poweroff. An advanced version in the form of multiremote copy “c:\temp\computers.txt” exitwin poweroff force of this exists that can turn off all remote computer systems specified in the text file computers.txt

Some of the more common uses for the nircmd command line tool are writing and deleting values in the Windows Registry, writing values to ini files, connecting to a VPN network or Internet account, changing file attributes, turning off the monitor or working with remote computers.

A selection of useful commands:

  • nircmd regedit “~$clipboard$” – Will open the Registry key that has been copied to the Windows Clipboard
  • nircmd.exe service restart [servicename] – Will restart the service specified in [servicename]. Works also with start, stop, pause and setting startup types.
  • nircmd.exe setprocesspriority [processname] high / nircmd.exe setprocessaffinity [processname] 0 1 – Change the process priority or process affinity of a selected process.
  • nircmd.exe killprocess [processname] – Kills the specified process

The help file that is supplied with the download of the command line tool is containing all commands and their possible parameters. This is a great tool especially for users who write batch files but also for those who like to work from the command line.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/02/nirsoft-command-line-tool/feed/ 2 Console 2 a better cmd.exe http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/console-2-a-better-cmdexe/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/console-2-a-better-cmdexe/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:01:19 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4917 The Windows command line tool that can be accessed by typing cmd.exe in the run box has not been changed in a long time. It provides a basic functionality which mostly cannot be altered. It is for instance not possible to pick any other font than the two that can be selected.

Console 2 tries to be a better command line in Windows by migrating the command line into the modern age. It introduces tabbed browsing, transparency, layout changes and several other functions that increase productivity. Most of the new features can be configured in the settings of Console 2.

Tabbed browsing on the other hand is available from the main toolbar. The settings are divided into several categories like tabs, appearance and behavior. A new font – including font size, format, color and smoothing – can be defined in the appearance menu together with transparency settings and features like snapping to desktop edges when the window is moved.

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The functionality of Console 2 is exactly the same that the default Windows command line offers which means that the changes are mostly cosmetic changes that do increase productivity. The most important additions in my opinion are the selection of additional fonts, the transparency and the tabbed browsing.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/09/console-2-a-better-cmdexe/feed/ 10 YubNub a social internet command line http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/16/yubnub-a-social-internet-command-line/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/16/yubnub-a-social-internet-command-line/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:28:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/16/yubnub-a-social-internet-command-line/ The first time I saw the yubnub website I was thinking that no one would need this website at all but after some testing it became clear that it offers an easy way to access many services very fast without depending on bookmarks or links. If you do work with the command line in Windows or Linux you feel right at home, you enter a command and some parameters and yubnub does the rest.

A list of commands is accessible by entering ls into the form field. I think an example will illustrate the strength of yubnub; wp ghacks searches wikipedia for the term ghacks, gim ghacks searches google images for ghacks. y or g searches yahoo or google for a selected search term. That is not all of course. AM title searches amazon for the title that you enter, random 1000 returns a random number between 1 and 1000.

A good selection of commands that should be useful for most users are Jeremy’s Picks which displays a list of about 100 commands. It is possible to create your own commands. You do select a command string that is not used yet and select a url that uses variables to perform searches or operations. One example would be http://images.google.com/images?q=%s which is simply the search string for google images.

The search string that is entered is substituted with %s in this example. It is possible to create more advanced searches  with more than one parameters.

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