Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/19
Based on [WayBack] How can I open a cmd window in a specific location? – Stack Overflow:
cmd /K "pushd ""D:\Versioned Stuff\wiert.me"""
The quoting is required for paths having spaces, so I always include them just in case I ever have a path with spaces.
If I want it with bash, then I run it as follows:
cmd /K "pushd ""D:\Versioned Stuff\wiert.me""" && "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe"
Documentation: [WayBack] CD Change Directory – Windows CMD – SS64.com
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Based on [WayBack] windows – How to run batch file command with elevated permissions? – Super User:
powershell -command "Start-Process cmd.exe -Verb runas"
This works better than "runas /user:administrator cmd.exe" as that forces to use the specific Administrator account, whereas the PowerShell way allows you to specify the actual account during elevation.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/11
I totally did not know that DOSKEY was part of CMD.EXE, but it is: [WayBack] How do I export the history from the Windows command line to a text file? – Super User
Even better: it can export the command history:
doskey /HISTORY > history.txt
Related:
/history : Displays all commands stored in memory. You can use a redirection symbol (>) with /history to redirect the list to a file. You can abbreviate /history as /h.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/11
schtasks /End [/S <system> [/U <username> [/P [<password>]]]] /TN taskname
Every now and then you have those Scheduled Tasks consisting of batch files that – despite trying – still ask for user input.
If – even after a reasonable time out – the Task Scheduler still hasn’t killed them, you can kill them by hand with the above schtasks in a snap.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/22
Everybody surely knows about more and more software trying to smart replace straight double quotes " with opening ” and closing ” ones.
WordPress is no exception and when you forget to embed these quotes in code and/or pre tags, your source code won’t paste as such.
For terminal code (nx or Windows console doesn’t matter much): it’s much worse: you should not copy/paste code directly to the terminal.
I usually did this any way to get quotes corrected, but – via Daniela Osterhagen referring Dorin Duminica – recently came across a reason that’s much more important:
What’s on the clipboard might not be what you saw on the web site.
An elaborate example is at User iteraction based exploitation: WYSINWYC (What you see is not what you copy) but it comes down to:
style tags.So basically copy/pasting to the console is just as risky as piping curl through bash or another shell. You can actually detect that server-side (and abuse it)!
–jeroen
Source: Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
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