Since Windows 2000, the whoami command has been part of the standard command line (thanks to pk for clearing that up in comments!). You can do this: Open a command prompt and type “set” then hit enter. This shows active environment variables. Current logged on username is stored in the USERNAME env variable and your … Read more
This should work on Linux and SysV5 ps -ef –sort=start_time
Try comm Another way to look at it: Show lines that only exist in file a: (i.e. what was deleted from a) comm -23 a b Show lines that only exist in file b: (i.e. what was added to b) comm -13 a b Show lines that only exist in one file or the other: … Read more
You can get the URL of the directory you are in, as well as the Repository Root and other info by running the following command in any of the checked out directories: svn info If you want a command that returns only the URL of the repository, perhaps for use in a script, then you … Read more
There are several fairly easy options available for remotely managing a remote Windows Server using a command line, including a few native options. Native Options: WinRS/WinRM Windows Remote Shell/Management tool is the easiest way to remotely manage a remote Windows server in a command line utility, and as with most Windows command line utilities, ss64 … Read more
The commands dig and host should be what you’re looking for 😉 On *nix systems, you can use this command: dig -x [address] Alternatively, you can add +short at the end of the dig command to output only the DNS result. There’s also nslookup on both *nix and Windows systems for reverse DNS requests.
DotNetZip will allow you to do this from PowerShell. It is not a one-liner, but the library will allow you to write the PowerShell script you need. You can also use the COM interface, see Compress Files with Windows PowerShell then package a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget. Googling “zip powershell” or “unzip powershell” might also … Read more
sed -n ‘10000000,10000020p’ filename You might be able to speed that up a little like this: sed -n ‘10000000,10000020p; 10000021q’ filename In those commands, the option -n causes sed to “suppress automatic printing of pattern space”. The p command “print[s] the current pattern space” and the q command “Immediately quit[s] the sed script without processing … Read more
It’s not built into Windows, but it’s in the Resource Kit Tools as COMPRESS, C:\>compress /? Syntax: COMPRESS [-R] [-D] [-S] [ -Z | -ZX ] Source Destination COMPRESS -R [-D] [-S] [ -Z | -ZX ] Source [Destination] Description: Compresses one or more files. Parameter List: -R Rename compressed files. -D Update compressed files … Read more
While top is running, you can press c to toggle between showing the process name and the command line. To remember the toggle state for next time, press W to save the current configuration to ~/.toprc.