Commands by adanisch (3)

  • Gracefully close all windows of an application

    This command will loop until the process no longer exists, calling closemainwindow() this is as if the user clicked the close window x in the upper right hand corner and gives the user an opportunity to save work in many applications like notepad and other things. The $'s are escaped for Cygwin, if you want to run the same command from the RUN box or cmd.exe shell then just unescape the $'s: powershell -Command "while ($true){Try{$process=Get-Process calc -ErrorAction Stop}Catch [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ProcessCommandException]{break;}if ($process) {$whateva=$process.CloseMainWindow()}else {break;}Start-Sleep -m 500}" Show Sample Output


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    powershell -Command "while (\$true){Try{\$process=Get-Process firefox -ErrorAction Stop}Catch [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ProcessCommandException]{break;}if (\$process) {\$whateva=\$process.CloseMainWindow()}else {break;}Start-Sleep -m 500}"
    adanisch · 2014-07-04 11:06:22 14
  • SSH/wmic to remotely kill a process on a windows box

    Tested on Windows 8 w/SSH, Cygwin - it can be tricky to quote if you dont use the $(..) syntax to echo it back out Show Sample Output


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    ssh <user>@<ip address> $(echo wmic process where \"name like \'%<process to kill>%\'\" delete)
    adanisch · 2014-07-02 04:41:05 6
  • Convert mp4 to mp3 in a directory

    Good for when you download youtube videos and want the mp3 for your mp3 player.


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    for a in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.mp4" -type f -printf "%f\n" | rev | cut -d '.' -f2- | rev | sort -u); do if [ ! -f "$a.mp3" ]; then avconv -i "$a."* -vn -ab 128 "$a.mp3"; fi done
    adanisch · 2014-06-27 05:13:53 7

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From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/01/msg00971.html .

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OK, not the most useful but a good way to impress friends. Requires the "display" command from ImageMagick.

Numeric zero padding file rename
This uses Perl's rename utility (you may have to call it as prename on your box) and won't choke on spaces or other characters in filenames. It will also zero pad a number even in filenames like "vacation-4.jpg".

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