ChangeVue 2009, SAPIEN Technologies’ source control system, is about to get yet another new way to manage its content: a traditional command line interface! Soon you will be able to manage your existing ChangeVue repositories directly through the CMD.exe console…
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I’ve blogged in the past about Wayne Martin and his outstanding list of command line tips. These are one line commands, some complex some simple, that you can use to accomplish a wide range of task. The overall number of…
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I finished up my slide decks for the first Techmentor conference of the year in San Francisco (March 30 –
Moscone Center West
April 3). If you’ve never been to a Techmentor conference you’re missing a great opportunity to hear…
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Another topic that I’ve seen resurface in the forums I frequent is reading remote registries. If you know exactly what you’re looking for it doesn’t get any easier than using REG.EXE from the command line. Here are some examples from…
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We have a zip file with all of our demos and decks from the recent Techmentor conference in Las Vegas. The file is about 72MB but should have all the scripting goodness you are looking for.
You can download the…
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Don and I have finally gotten zip files with all the updated session material from the Techmentor Orlando 2007 conference. There is a zip file for each of us at http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp.
I know in my zip file there are several…
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At the recent Techmentor conference in Orlando, I did a few (popular) sessions on using automating with batch files and using the command line. One tool I talked about was WMIC, or the WMI command line interface. This is available…
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Let’s wrap up our look at CHOICE.EXE and how to use it in batch files. I’ve shown you some basic examples but CHOICE has a few “advanced” features you might want to incorporate into your batch file.
As I’ve explained…
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Let’s continue to look at CHOICE.EXE and how to use it in a batch file. Here’s what you might have for a command line menu system of common admin tasks:
@AdminMenu.batGOTO :MENU :MENU
clsecho Admin Menuecho 1 – Create Userecho…
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During my sessions at Techmentor Orlando 2007 on automating with batch files, a few of my samples used the CHOICE command. I never had time to fully explain it, hence the purpose of this entry. CHOICE, when used in a…
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