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New Windows package manager available in Powershell 5.0 This is quite revolutionary.

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There is a new package manager available for Windows 8.1, this allows the installation of Windows software with the Powershell command line. Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Install-Package -name Chrome WARNING: Skipping package provider provider ‘NuGet’– missing required option ‘Destination’ The package ‘xChrome’ comes from a package source … Read more

How to perform the same task as wget using Windows 10 and Powershell 5.0.

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The Windows 10 Powershell command prompt has a cmdlet named Invoke-WebRequest, this allows a user to download a link using Powershell. This will download a web link with a very fast transfer rate. Making this a very good way to retrieve a web link. Below is an example downloading a link from kernel.org. I am … Read more

More useful Windows Server 2012 CMD commands.

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The route PRINT command shows the routing table. This gives some insight into your network connections. C:\Users\Administrator>route PRINT =========================================================================== Interface List 18…1e 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter 13…4c 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Qualcomm Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter 12…88 ae 1d 6d 09 bc ……Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet … Read more

Very useful Powershell commands available in Powershell 4.0.

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Some very useful Powershell 4.0 cmdlets that are now available. Get-FileHash this gets the SHA256 hash of a file. PS C:\Users\Homer\Desktop> Get-FileHash .\scammers.png   Algorithm Hash Path ——— —- —- SHA256 92E09BFBBAD2DF6E3FD329CB4AE5F15231AA12B869327706854F7DF9D106971B C:\Users\Homer\Desktop\scammers.pngPS C:\Users\Homer\Desktop> Get-FileHash .\scammers.png Algorithm Hash Path ——— —- —- SHA256 92E09BFBBAD2DF6E3FD329CB4AE5F15231AA12B869327706854F7DF9D106971B C:\Users\Homer\Desktop\scammers.png Save-Help This will download help content from a remote server … Read more

Using Powershell on Linux with the Pash console.

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The Powershell console is now available on Linux with the advent of the Pash console. This allows a Linux user to use Powershell commands on Linux just as they do in Windows. The screenshot I have included shows the usage of the Powershell Get-PsDrive cmdlet. This would be a very powerful tool for administering Windows … Read more

The Linux console in danger of being killed in favor of a userspace option instead?

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There are plans afoot to move the Virtual Terminal on Linux to userspace instead of it being a kernel level application. But the main strength of the Virtual Terminal is that it is very reliable and you can always rely on it when your Xorg installation has crashed with an error. This is why we … Read more

A correction I have to make regarding the Powershell and wildcards. The bash shell is still better though.

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I need to correct what I said in this posting: http://www.securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/bash-shell-is-better-than-powershell-and-discussion-of-the-linux-desktop-versus-windows/ and also this one. regarding the Powershell and its handling of certain constructs that I mentioned in this posting: http://www.securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/windows-powershell-not-as-good-as-bash-shell-and-other-thoughts/. It turns out that the Powershell does support this after all as shown in this sample below. PS C:\Users\Homer\Documents> ls STRIFE[0-9].wad   Directory: C:\Users\Homer\Documents … Read more

Windows Powershell not as good as BASH shell and other thoughts.

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It is really amazing that the new Windows Powershell is moving Windows Administrators back towards the command-line instead of using the GUI for everything. Powershell has some very good features; but the difficulty I have experienced installing extra cmdlets is very grating indeed. It is better to use the BASH shell, as it is very … Read more