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windows scripting

I was asked the other day if I could take over a task that was running on windows machine. The sentence was hardly out of my boss’s mouth when he said that “you unix guys don’t like windows though”. Well, … Continue reading

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command line fun – windows flow control

Windows batch files are not nearly as rich as some languages (perl or python) and certainly not as rich as the shell scripting. Not all of the familiar control structures exist but it is possible to create some as necessary … Continue reading

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command line fun – logs and logging

Before writing this blog entry, I never considered the actual similarities between the Linux shell and the dos shell. I shouldn’t have been too surprised as the similarities have less to do with the operating systems than with the general … Continue reading

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command line fun – the basics

I was meeting with a younger friend to fix his virus laden laptop, it turned out to be quite a mess so we decided it would be more efficient to restore it from the recovery partition. I was a bit … Continue reading

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