Tag Archives: CLI

Revisit an old friend

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Jeffery Hicks

I have a new blog at the SAPIEN blog that is a visit to an old friend, DosKey. Now, before you dismiss this as old-fashioned, take a moment to read the article and try it out. If you spend a … Continue reading →

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Batch File Logs

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve always liked creating audit logs in my VBScript work, but could never figure out how to create a nicely formatted log from a batch file. Now I have. See http://sapien.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/20/2513469.html for the details. Technorati Tags:Batch Scripting

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More One Liners

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Jeffery Hicks

I recently did a TipSheet column listing some of my favorite quick, one line commands. Reader Wayne was kind enough to share with me his list of oft-used one-liners which he graciously offered to share. I have not tested many … Continue reading →

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Techmentor: FOR examples

Posted on March 21, 2006 by Jeffery Hicks

The FOR command is one of the most important commands you can use as a Windows administrator. I have a short article on the command you can download at http://www.jdhitsolutions.com/tutorials.htm (grab the FOR Essentials link) . Here are few of … Continue reading →

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Techmentor: DSQuery and DSMod examples

Posted on March 21, 2006 by Jeffery Hicks

During the command line scripting session, I demonstrated how to use the directory service command line tools like dsmod, dsquery and dsget. You can get syntax help by running ‘dsquery /?’ (or dsmod,dsadd,dsget). There’s a lot of help information so … Continue reading →

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