Got "base64: invalid input" error: $ base64 -d base64_encoded.txt >original.bin ba... which can be easily dismissed as "input is invalid base64 encoded" or "partial input". But I know it's valid base64 encoded input! The problem was, the input was base64 encoded on Windows! The error goes away after converting to Unix format with dos2unix . dos2unix < base64_encoded.txt | base64 -d >origina... Version of base64 used: $ base64 --version base64 (GNU coreutils) 8.5 ...

Windows command line shell does not come with a sleep command. One trick is to emulate sleep using the ping command: C:\>ping /? Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count... To sleep for about 5 seconds: @rem make sure to ping a non-existing IP, otherwis... If you have the Windows Resource Kit installed, it does provide a sleep command: C:\>sleep Usage: sleep time-to-sleep-in-s...

From the command line I can start and stop Windows services with NET START service_name and NET STOP service_name . But the NET command does not give a way to find the service name. You need the sc command to get the service name, below are some examples: List all running services: sc query List all services, running or not running (notice the space after =): sc query type= service state= all List all active drivers: sc query type= driver Find information about the "Indexing Service" (requires GNU grep): sc query type= service state= all | grep -i index ... Start the indexing service: sc start CiSvc Stop the indexing service: sc stop CiSvc Check the status of the indexing service: sc query CiSvc

The easiest way to shutdown Windows XP with a shortcut is to create a shortcut icon on the desktop (or the Start menu, or the Quick Launch menu) and assign a shortcut key combination. Useful command line commands: Shutdown : shutdown -s -t 0 Restart : shutdown -r -t 0 Log off : shutdown -l -t 0 Hibernate : rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Hibernate Command line options for shutdown : C:\> shutdown /? Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s ...

Especially, the ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" line should be absent in order for networking to work. #!/usr/bin/vmplayer # Filename: Win2000.vmx...

The caret ^ is DOS command line escape character. Example 1: echo < and > as is, not interpreting them as input/output redirect. @rem sign an XML file. Requires Java class utils.x... Example 2: treat & literally, not as the special character to combine two commands. @rem search "dos command line" in Google. curl ... Add switch -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1" to make curl look like Firefox.

From X(7) manual page : Although the layout of windows on a display is controlled by the window manager that the user is running (described below), most X programs accept a command line argument of the form -geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF (where WIDTH, HEIGHT, XOFF, and YOFF are numbers) for specifying a preferred size and location for this application's main window. The WIDTH and HEIGHT parts of the geometry specification are usually measured in either pixels or characters , depending on the application. The XOFF and YOFF parts are measured in pixels and are used to specify the distance of the window from the left or right and top and bottom edges of the screen, respectively. Both types of offsets are measured from the indicated edge of...

There is a open source project named [ini4j] for processing Windows .ini configuration files. However, I found it an overkill for my purposes. So here is my simple implementation of a .ini parser. It mimics the standard java.util.Properties class with enhancements to get and set properties by section name. There are only a few simple rules: Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from section names, property names and property values. Section names are enclosed between [ and ] . Properties following a section header belong to that section Properties defined before the appearance of any section headers are considered global properties and should be set and get with no section names. You can use either equal sign ( = ) or colon ( : )...

It's quite easy for Perl to open a pipe and read from it: $file = "nospace.txt"; open(IN, "cat $file |") ... But the code breaks when the file name contains a space: # This does not work! $file = "yes space.txt"; ... On Windows, these don't work either: # This does not work! $file = "yes space.txt"; ... You need to use a technique called Safe Pipe Opens : $file = "yes space.txt"; $prog = "cat"; ...

Oracle provides two versions of SQLPlus: a command line version ( sqlplus.exe ) and a windows version ( sqlplusw.exe ). The windows version is rather primitive (ever used Windows 3.1?), but it moved many commands/options to the menus. So it may still be easier to get started with it then the command line version. However, you may be better off with the command line version after you get somewhat familiar with SQLPlus. In SQL*Plus you can enter: SQL*Plus commands. For a list of commands enter help index at the SQL prompt SQL commands - SQL statements sent to the database. These statements are terminated by semicolon unless you change it PL/SQL blocks - Blocks of PL/SQL code. When you enter a SQL command or PL/SQL...