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Get windows IPv4 and nothing else

May be useful to get user's ip address over the phone, as users struggle to read through a long ipconfig result. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . :w.x.y.z
```
2

cls && ipconfig | find "IPv4"

dizzi90 · 2013-12-03 13:08:01 10
Kill process by pid

To kill a process in windows by using the PID. Change 10728 to the PID of the process you want to kill. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
PS H:\> taskkill /pid 10728
SUCCESS: The process with PID 10728 has been terminated.
```
1

taskkill /pid 10728

rfi99 · 2012-08-10 05:58:22 16
Convert all files *.mp4 to *.mpeg using ffmpeg (Windows Cmd line)

Note: %~nI expands %I to a file name only (cf. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490909.aspx)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
1

FOR %I IN (*.mp4) DO \Tools\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i "%I" "%~nI.mpeg"

tomtom99 · 2013-12-25 16:43:49 6
Open multiple tabs in Firefox from a file containing urls

Firefox.exe needs to be in the path To enhance: add a sleep... url_list contains urls: D:\>type url_list.txt http://yahoo.com google.com http://fr.news.yahoo.com
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

for /F %i in (url_list.txt) do Firefox.exe -new-tab "%i"

sebastien_ferry · 2011-09-09 02:17:16 10

List tasks running

Like ps on unix, but for windows. Show Sample Output

tasklist

rfi99 · 2012-08-10 05:56:07 9

%t are tens. %d are digits. One may have further outer loops to provide hundreds, thousands, etc. This example applies ping to the numbered machines. The pattern can be used in other ways to apply all combinations of components to a task. Show Sample Output

c:\>for %t in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7) do for %d in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do ping -n 1 machine-0%t%d

bugmagnet · 2012-09-18 03:31:52 5

Create Security Group

-secgrp no for distribution -scope u for distribution
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

dsadd group cn=group_name,dc=example,dc=com -secgrp yes -scope g -samid group_name

shawn_abdushakur · 2014-03-06 15:25:17 9

List local accounts, their SIDs and password metadata from the Windows command-prompt (CMD.exe)

List local accounts and their SIDs (*-500 is the original local Administrator, *-501 is the original local Guest, more below). This is helpful in identifying local accounts that are not disabled, don't have an expiring password, etc. Well-Known SIDs https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/243330 Show Sample Output

wmic useraccount WHERE "LocalAccount=1" GET Name,Disabled,Lockout,PasswordChangeable,PasswordExpires,PasswordRequired,SID

Xeleema · 2015-12-29 18:01:42 10

Get windows IPv4 and nothing else
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-1

cls && ipconfig | findstr -R "[ IPv4 | adapter ]"

sameer666 · 2013-12-03 13:29:30 6

Get windows IPv4 and nothing else

also shows the ethernet adapter Show Sample Output

-1

cls && ipconfig | findstr -R "[ IPv4 | adapter ]"

sameer666 · 2013-12-03 13:31:00 7

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Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Edit a file on a remote host using vim

Save your open windows to a file so they can be opened after you restart

This will save your open windows to a file (~/.windows). To start those applications: $ cat ~/.windows | while read line; do $line &; done Should work on any EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. If you use DWM or another Window Manager not using EWMH or NetWM try this: $ xwininfo -root -children | grep '^ ' | grep -v children | grep -v '' | sed -n 's/^ *$0x[0-9a-f]*$ .*/\1/p' | uniq | while read line; do xprop -id $line _NET_WM_PID | sed -n 's/.* = $[0-9]*$$/\1/p'; done | uniq -u | grep -v '^$' | while read line; do ps -o cmd= $line; done > ~/.windows

Escape forward slashes in a variable

For example $ path="/etc/apt/sources.list"; echo ${path//'/'/'\/'} will print $ \/etc\/apt\/sources.list

highlight with grep and still output file contents

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

remove OSX resource forks ._ files

DESCRIPTION For each dir, dot_clean recursively merges all ._* files with their cor- responding native files according to the rules specified with the given arguments. By default, if there is an attribute on the native file that is also present in the ._ file, the most recent attribute will be used. If no operands are given, a usage message is output. If more than one directory is given, directories are merged in the order in which they are specified.

Separates each frame of a animated gif file to a counted file, then appends the frames together into one sheet file. Useful for making sprite sheets for games.

requires imagemagick

Redirect tar extract to another directory

The command extracting the tar contents into particular directory ...

Have subversion ignore a file pattern in a directory

If you don't want to commit files to subversion, and don't want those file to show up when doing an "svn stat", this command is what you need

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