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ms speech from command line

July 22, 2023 by Tarik

My 2 cents on the topic, command line one-liners: on Win using PowerShell.exe PowerShell -Command “Add-Type –AssemblyName System.Speech; (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).Speak(‘hello’);” on Win using mshta.exe mshta vbscript:Execute(“CreateObject(“”SAPI.SpVoice””).Speak(“”Hello””)(window.close)”) on OSX using say say “hello” Ubuntu Desktop (>=2015) using native spd-say spd-say “hello” on any other Linux refer to How to text-to-speech output using command-line? commandline function using … Read more

Running interactive command line code from Jupyter notebook

June 9, 2023 by Tarik

the !commandsyntax is an alternative syntax of the %system magic, which documentation can be found here. As you guessed, it’s invoking os.system and as far as os.system works there is no simple way to know whether the process you will be running will need input from the user. Thus when using the notebook or any … Read more

How to change text color of cmd with windows batch script every 1 second

June 3, 2023 by Tarik

This should fit the bill. Sounds like a super-annoying thing to have going on, but there you have it: @echo off set NUM=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F for %%x in (%NUM%) do ( for %%y in (%NUM%) do ( color %%x%%y timeout 1 >nul … Read more

Cmd crashes with exit code 1 after uninstalling anaconda

April 26, 2023 by Tarik

The following answer was (supposedly) initially posted (but later removed) by @Mofi and I got it from the comment of @filippo-vicari. So all credits go to them, thanks for solving this issue! It took me hours to finally find their solution. Enter the following command into the still working powershell (in my case Anaconda Powershell): … Read more

How to fix ‘.’ is not an internal or external command error

March 29, 2023 by Tarik

Just leave out the “dot-slash” ./: D:\Gesture Recognition\Gesture Recognition\Debug>”Gesture Recognition.exe” Though, if you wanted to, you could use .\ and it would work. D:\Gesture Recognition\Gesture Recognition\Debug>.\”Gesture Recognition.exe”

Correct quoting for cmd.exe for multiple arguments

March 29, 2023 by Tarik

Note the “” at the beginning and at the end! Run a program and pass a Long Filename cmd /c write.exe “c:\sample documents\sample.txt” Spaces in Program Path cmd /c “”c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe”” Spaces in Program Path + parameters cmd /c “”c:\Program Files\demo.cmd”” Parameter1 Param2 Spaces in Program Path + parameters with spaces cmd /k “”c:\batch … Read more

Run an EXE from a different directory?

March 3, 2023 by Tarik

You should use a backslash \, instead of forward slash. / C:\dirZero> dirOne\myProgram.exe Or, wrap it with double quotes ” C:\dirZero> “dirOne/myProgram.exe”

openssl hangs and does not exit

February 7, 2023 by Tarik

On windows, simply typing winpty before your openssl command will do the trick. So, for example, you could create a certificate like so: winpty openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days XXX

Unzip files (7-zip) via cmd command

February 2, 2023 by Tarik

Doing the following in a command prompt works for me, also adding to my User environment variables worked fine as well: set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\7-Zip\ echo %PATH% 7z You should see as output (or something similar – as this is on my laptop running Windows 7): C:\Users\Phillip>set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\7-Zip\ C:\Users\Phillip>echo %PATH% C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program … Read more

How do I get a list of folders and sub folders without the files?

January 28, 2023 by Tarik

Try this: dir /s /b /o:n /ad > f.txt