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20 Cool Command Line Tricks for Windows and macOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/08

After all these years in the field, I still learned new tricks from [WayBack] 20 Cool Command Line Tricks for Windows and macOS which I have rephrased:

Windows

1) View installed drivers: [WayBack] driverquery

2) Watch Star Wars in ASCII: [WayBack] telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

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3) Save folder trees to disk: tree (I had totally forgotten about this, probably because it leaves out a lot of directories and files)

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5) Show your Wi-Fi password [WayBack] netsh wlan show profile SSID key=clear (replace SSID with your network name; use nets wlan show profile to view the network names)

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7) Check your laptop’s battery health: [WayBack] powercfg /batteryreport which will be in ” and hit Enter to generate the report, then %HOMEPATH%\battery-report.html

8) View your Windows license key: wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey [WayBack]

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Mac OS X / macOS / however it is called now

1) Change the default screenshot type: [WayBack] defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG (you can also use JP2 (for JPEG2000), PDF, PNG, TIFF and others)

2) Get your Mac to speak to you: use say

3) Add a message to the login screen: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "your new text on the logon window" [WayBack]

4) Play Tetris and other classics: start emacs, then press Esc followed by X, type in tetris, pong, snake or solitaire (to exit emacs, press Ctrl–X followed by Ctrl–C). There are [WayBack] more emacs games.

5) Get a dictionary definition: run curl dict://dict.org/d:word (where word is what you are after) which uses the [WayBack] dict protocol

6) Keep macOS awake: [WayBack] caffeinate optionally followed by a -t## parameter where ## is the number of seconds to not sleep.

7) Show hidden files: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE; killall Finder or use this AppleShowAllFiles script which I had forgotten about writing in the first place.

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10) Add Spaces to the Dock: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{”tile-type”=”spacer-tile”;}’; killall Dock running the command as many times as you want spaces. To get rid of a space you’ve added, just drag them to the Trash.

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] 20 Cool Command Line Tricks for Windows and macOS http://flip.it/SvcQlu – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

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