Since there is so much confusion about functionality of standard service accounts, I’ll try to give a quick run down. First the actual accounts: LocalService account (preferred) A limited service account that is very similar to Network Service and meant to run standard least-privileged services. However, unlike Network Service it accesses the network as an … Read more
If you are not into Cygwin, you can use native Windows builds. Some are here: curl Download Wizard.
To create a Windows Service from an executable, you can use sc.exe: sc.exe create <new_service_name> binPath= “<path_to_the_service_executable>” You must have quotation marks around the actual exe path, and a space after the binPath=. More information on the sc command can be found in Microsoft KB251192. Note that it will not work for just any executable: … Read more
Use the -wait parameter with Get-Content, which displays lines as they are added to the file. This feature was present in PowerShell v1, but for some reason not documented well in v2. Here is an example Get-Content -Path “C:\scripts\test.txt” -Wait Once you run this, update and save the file and you will see the changes … Read more
I found it: $env:UserName There is also: $env:UserDomain $env:ComputerName
Quoting this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file#maximum-path-length-limitation Maximum Path Length Limitation In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following paragraphs), the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters. A local path is structured in the following order: drive letter, colon, backslash, name components separated by backslashes, and a terminating … Read more
This prints it in the console: echo %cd% or paste this command in CMD, then you’ll have pwd: (echo @echo off echo echo ^%cd^%) > C:\WINDOWS\pwd.bat
I think you want NUL, at least within a command prompt or batch files. For example: type c:\autoexec.bat > NUL doesn’t create a file. (I believe the same is true if you try to create a file programmatically, but I haven’t tried it.) In PowerShell, you want $null: echo 1 > $null
If you start Notepad and then File -> Save As -> Write .htaccess and choose “All Files” as the type – then it will create the .htaccess file for you.
dancavallaro has it right, %* for all command line parameters (excluding the script name itself). You might also find these useful: %0 – the command used to call the batch file (could be foo, ..\foo, c:\bats\foo.bat, etc.) %1 is the first command line parameter, %2 is the second command line parameter, and so on till … Read more