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How can I change the color of my prompt in zsh (different from normal text)?

October 18, 2022 by Tarik

Put this in ~/.zshrc: autoload -U colors && colors PS1=”%{$fg[red]%}%n%{$reset_color%}@%{$fg[blue]%}%m %{$fg[yellow]%}%~ %{$reset_color%}%% ” Supported Colors: red, blue, green, cyan, yellow, magenta, black, & white (from this answer) although different computers may have different valid options. Surround color codes (and any other non-printable chars) with %{….%}. This is for the text wrapping to work correctly. Additionally, … Read more

In Windows cmd, how do I prompt for user input and use the result in another command?

September 14, 2022 by Tarik

Try this: @echo off set /p “id=Enter ID: ” You can then use %id% as a parameter to another batch file like jstack %id%. For example: set /P id=Enter id: jstack %id% > jstack.txt

Run Command Prompt Commands

September 8, 2022 by Tarik

this is all you have to do run shell commands from C# string strCmdText; strCmdText= “/C copy /b Image1.jpg + Archive.rar Image2.jpg”; System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(“CMD.exe”,strCmdText); EDIT: This is to hide the cmd window. System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(); startInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden; startInfo.FileName = “cmd.exe”; startInfo.Arguments = “/C copy /b Image1.jpg + Archive.rar … Read more

List all environment variables from the command line

September 4, 2022 by Tarik

Just do: SET You can also do SET prefix to see all variables with names starting with prefix. For example, if you want to read only derbydb from the environment variables, do the following: set derby …and you will get the following: DERBY_HOME=c:\Users\amro-a\Desktop\db-derby-10.10.1.1-bin\db-derby-10.10.1.1-bin