Windows Cheatsheet
Handy tips and commands for life on Windows (when you are used to UNIX).
Posted: Fri 13 Jan, 2017, 11:08
How to find processes with commmand line arguments
WMIC path win32_process get Caption,ParentProcessId,Processid,Commandline | findstr <searchstr>
Then use Task Manager to End Process
To change directory (and drive)
cd /d <drive:dir>
To redirect output to file
Just like UNIX...
echo "Hello" >> c:\temp\proc.log 2>&1
To get pwd on Windows
echo %cd%
To get the first argument passed to a bat file
echo %1
UNIX which on Windows
where <cmd>
Of course it had to be different.
Sleep for x seconds
timeout 5
To sleep for 5 seconds
Line count
netstat -a | find /c /i "TIME_WAIT"
To create a symbolic link on Windows do
mklink /d current 0.2.03
The opposite way around to Linux i.e. the link name first followed by the directory that already exists.