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How to find public ip address in PowerShell from a restricted internet in windows 11
What if the whatismyipaddress.com or ifconfig.me is blocked? or A VPN connected. Goal is to find the public ip without depending these sites.
You'll probably need to depend on some external site. If ...
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Triggering the Windows Notification Center?
Per Microsoft to open Action Center, do any of the following:
On the right end of the taskbar, select the Action Center icon.
Press the Windows logo key + A.
On a touchscreen device, swipe in from ...
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Enforce ProxySettingsPerUser=0 without open administrator's systemsettings panel
The missing finishing touch for the poster was to run the command:
netsh winhttp import proxy source =ie
Reference :
How to set the proxy settings for all users when Cannot see Analytics data.
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Convert UTF-16 LE to UTF-16 LE BOM or to UTF-8 in windows via command line
The type command will work if the UTF16 file does not contain a BOM:
type utf16.txt >ascii.txt
But as in your case the generated file does have a BOM, a sure-fire
method for converting the file ...
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How to start Zoom muted from CLI
I tired multiple options but we can't disable audio and enable video in URL schema
Refer: https://devforum.zoom.us/t/opening-zoom-app-with-video-enabled-using-xdg-open-command-in-ubuntu-terminal-with-...
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Need Help creating a Right-Click menu entry
You can just place the .bat file somewhere, and add it to path. Then, when you want to organize a certain folder, just go into the folder (where all the files are located), click on the address bar, ...
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Rar only certain extensions?
This compresses only .exe and .msi files:
@echo off
setlocal
set "winrarPath=C:\Program Files\WinRAR" REM Change this path if WinRAR is installed elsewhere
set "extensions=.exe .msi&...
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Removing mail accounts from local Windows users via CLI
I did some digging of my own in the meantime and I found a way to locate the registry keys that are generated when an account is linked, they are under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\IdentityCRL\...
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Seemingly impossible to extract URL string in between two text delimiters from 100's of messy Google News Alert emails with batch
so from everyone's input, I've been able to put together the following code, yet it still does not work as it will not parse out the '=' that is inherent in every line in a .eml file inbetween the two ...
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Windows: how to install driver from recovery command prompt?
The Origin Problem
I encountered an issue where I had a VM (W2k12) on Proxmox and needed more than one driver. However, I didn't know which driver was required, and pnputil was not available for ...
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Unix cat and zip together
From
zip(1) - Linux man page :
zip also accepts a single dash ("-") as the name of a file to be
compressed, in which case it will read the file from standard input,
allowing zip to take ...
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Unix cat and zip together
This probably isn't what you really want but you can do this.
mkfifo zip.pipe # create fifo
cat File2022*.txt > zip.pipe & # pipe data to fifo, in background
zip --fifo ...
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Start a Zoom meeting from the command line
Answer
confno and pwd are the values to set in the zoom scheme (URL).
I created a basic Python module to use for that:
from os import startfile
from urllib.parse import urlencode
def meeting(number, ...
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7-zip unzipping files via command line where the zip contains special characters
The Unicode character
U+00eb
is correct and is indeed the character ë,
so it seems that everything is working right.
I would guess that the person that is viewing the extracted files
uses a wrong ...
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Timezone conversion by command line
I had a problem that many others probably share - my server (which works in UTC) queries a REST API in a remote server that is set to San Francisco time, and it returns date/time fields with no ...
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I'm not understanding Query Session command
I've discovered the same (also a hashed listen session starting with 31c5c...) on my Win10 22H2 Clients (>100 Clients).
Closest I got to uncovering what this is was:
What is this hashed Session ...
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How to start QuickTime recording at command line?
To start a QuickTime recording at the command line on a Mac, you can use the osascript command to execute AppleScript code. Here's an example script that you can use:
tell application "QuickTime ...
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What is the equivalent of Linux's "~" (tilde) in Windows?
In cmd.exe, you can make ~ work just like ~ in Unix systems with help of clink and its Lua scripts:
Install latest version of clink.
Download tilde_autoexpand.lua and place it in some directory, let'...
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Closing focused program from the command line
AutoIt can do it. Just several commands.
Look for:
$pid=WinGetProcess([ACTIVE])
ProcessClose($pid)
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Adding Git repo and branch to Tmux status line
Like mentioned by @Jasha, the status line does not update when you change branches. However, Tmux has a window option called pane-border-status. Combining @Nathan Kot's answer with this option results ...
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How to convert .reg files to PowerShell set-itemproperty commands automatically?
According to Microsoft reference, there is no -path parameter in the syntax of Out-File command on line 125, so you need to replace it with the correct one -FilePath:
Change this line:
$Commands | Out-...
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Feedback when typing password at a sudo prompt
In /etc/sudoers (edit with sudo visudo), add the following line:
Defaults pwfeedback
Note: the other answer all mention env_reset, which is an unrelated option. Depending on your config, you might ...
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Using ffmpeg to download m3u8 video in two ways resulting in two vastly different sizes; Why?
The command ffmpeg -i filename_v2.ts filename_v2.mp4 recompresses the media. It's no longer the source data.
Instead, when generating list.txt, drop the file and use echo "$i" and then run,
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Running PHP works in Command Prompt but not Git Bash
My git bash was pointing to PHP in my XAMMP folder. Reinstalling XAMMP corrected the issue for me.
download XAMMP
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
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Mapped network drive unavailable on reboot until viewed in windows explorer (windows 7)
I had a similar issue and was able to workaround by adding the credentials to Generic Credentials in Credential Manager:
cmdkey /generic:yourIP /user:yourUser /pass:yourPass
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Mapped network drive resets on restart
I had a similar issue and was able to workaround by adding the credentials to Generic Credentials in Credential Manager:
cmdkey /generic:10.0.1.145 /user:yourUser /pass:yourPass
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Count files in a folder and subfolders with specific extension (.mp4) from the command line
(Get-ChildItem -Filter *.yaml -File -Recurse).Count
(Get-ChildItem -Filter *.yml -File -Recurse).Count
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Generate distribution of file sizes from the command prompt
I stumbled upon this question because I also wanted to view a distribution of my files sizes. In my case, however, I had no need for power of 2 buckets. I used a different bash command to view the ...
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Navigate to previous directory in windows command prompt
You can easily make a doskey macro to navigate to previous directory.
rem test.bat
@echo off
doskey cdx=@echo off$tpushd %cd%$T$tcd $1$t@echo on
doskey rcdx=popd
cmd
echo on
Save the above code to ...
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opensuse leap 15.4, installing apps from .ymp files (one click install) with the command line
What apps are you actually missing? The chances are they are available. Try running yast2 or yast2 sw_single and have it search for the required software. Anyway, try /usr/bin/OneClickInstallCLI or /...
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BATCH: Correctly interpret environment variables passed by user through set /p
To continue a command line in a batch script, you could use the
escape character at the end of the line, like this :
set /p target=^
%programdata%
echo %target%
To explain the difference between this ...
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BATCH: Correctly interpret environment variables passed by user through set /p
After enough hours of keyboard smashing, I've found a solution that works for me, using call to re-evaluate the input:
>set /p target=
>%programdata%
>call set "target=%target%"
>...
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wsl' is not recognized as an internal or external command
$ENV:PATH="$ENV:PATH;c:\Windows\System32"
usando esse comando ele vai achar o wsl no path
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Expand variable to alias and execute
Is there a reason a variable cannot be expanded then resolved as an alias?
When processing an input line, alias resolution is performed before variable expansion – not during or after. As the linked ...
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Is openssl is an alias for libressl on macOS?
The openssl binary shipped with macOS is actually libressl and not OpenSSL
It's not just an Alias or Symlink, but the /usr/bin/openssl file itself is actually LibreSSL, there is no libressl to run (...
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Using "find" to list only directories with no more childs
To find directories that have no subdirectories:
find dir -type d -links 2
explanation: a directory has a link for each subdirectory in it, a link from its parent and a link to itself, thus a count of ...
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How can I mass rename files?
PowerRename by Microsoft
I recommend PowerRename, one of Microsoft’s PowerToys utilities. You can see how robust it would be in that it’s from Microsoft.
PowerRename is a bulk renaming tool that ...
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colorized bash prompt overwrites previous command's output if the output doesn't end with a newline
A simple & elegant solution is to check if the cursor is in 1st column and issue a newline if that's not the case. I have already written this answer for another question, you can take a look: ...
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Is there a way to display a countdown or stopwatch timer in a terminal?
Using the top answer, I created the following version that supports any precision:
function stopwatch {
local precision="${1:-3}"
if [ "$precision" -eq 0 ]; then
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assoc-ftype does not work properly on windows 10
I found a solution for Win10 as to why sometimes assoc will be ignored and seem to not do anything.
So I was trying to associate .webm files with ffplay.exe. So this is what I typed in CMD:
ftype ...
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Is the cd command temporary?
Usually the change is not temporary. It is permanent till next cd/pushd/popd.
F: changes current drive to F:
cd F:\ changes current path on drive F: to root (\), does not change current drive
cd \...
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How to connect to other computer on same network without ssh?
If you do not wish to use SSH, you can install XRDP on Linux machines:
Install xrdp: sudo apt install xrdp
Enable xrdp: sudo systemctl enable xrdp
Start the xrdp service (must be started each time ...
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Seemingly impossible to extract URL string in between two text delimiters from 100's of messy Google News Alert emails with batch
Your example content for output string does not include the "=", in:
...d=1-2-333333-56543554.php
If this is not intentional (a typo) then you can use:
@echo off && setlocal ...
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Get Firefox command line startup command of currently running instance
Here is another way, which compared to the other answers has the added benefits of a) being OS agnostic b) working when multiple instances of Firefox run concurrently.
Enable the command line of the ...
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Seemingly impossible to extract URL string in between two text delimiters from 100's of messy Google News Alert emails with batch
With this text in input.html
"widgets": [ { "type": "LINK", "title": "tmavomodr=C3=A9 =C5=w2q2wa blackblob, strih do A, obtiahnut= =C3=A9, blabla", &...
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How can I prevent to run same batch file twice to allow only one instance?
2023... Windows 11's use of WindowsTerminal.exe (batch not run as admin on cmd.exe)
@echo off
SET _title=Prepare and launch POS and CCTV Client
tasklist /fi "Windowtitle eq %_title%"|find /i ...
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How to open chrome:// pages from Linux Terminal
Direct answer: Won't work (so far).
Workaround: Used xdotool for X11 on Linux.
Example code for xdotool:
google-chrome --new-window && xdotool type 'chrome://extensions'
xdotool key Return
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How do I hide just the users/userName portion of the path in command prompt?
What you’re seeing is the path of the current working directory. Since the home directory of your user is located at your old username, that is the directory you are seeing when you first open command ...
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How can I put the computer to sleep from Command Prompt/Run menu?
As a PowerShell one-liner:
(Add-Type -MemberDefinition "[DllImport(""powrprof.dll"")]`npublic static extern bool SetSuspendState(bool Hibernate, bool ForceCritical, bool ...
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How can I burn in .ass file and a watermark to a video file using ffmpeg simultaneously?
Not a big deal, you just have to add the subtitle filter:
ffmpeg -i F:\ffmpeg\bin\video.mp4 -i F:\ffmpeg\bin\logo.png -filter_complex "[1]format=rgba,colorchannelmixer=aa=0.4[logo];[logo][0]...
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