Archive for the 'cli' Category

Add a Send To for Sysinternals Contig

One of my favorite tools is Sysinternals’ (Microsoft) Contig commandline utility to make files contiguous. However, it’s a pain having to type the full path to the file or directory you want to contig, so I fooled around until I came up with these two tricks: To create a Send To item that will contig [...]

UnixKit-tiny

UnixKit for Windows is a toolkit of Unixlike programs for Microsoft Windows. Unlike CygWin, it does not require installation. In fact, it leaves absolutely no traces on the host machine when you’re done using it.The -tiny branch presently includes:arc arj bash bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover cat chmod cksum cp csplit cut dd df diff du file [...]

Time & Date stamp for batch files

This has been driving me crazy – how to get a decent Time & Date stamp in a batch file. After much Googling and experimenting I came up with this.  This was tested on XP Pro with English (United States) Regional Settings and will likely not work if your Regional Settings are different. Take a [...]