How to clear the interpreter console?
As you mentioned, you can do a system call: For Windows: >>> import os >>> clear = lambda: os.system(‘cls’) >>> clear() For Linux it would be: >>> import os >>> clear = lambda: os.system(‘clear’) >>> clear()
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Why does the 260 character path length limit exist in Windows?
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
Windows equivalent to UNIX pwd
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
Is there a /dev/null on Windows?
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
How do I manually create a file with a . (dot) prefix in Windows? For example, .htaccess
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.
How to get list of arguments?
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
A Windows equivalent of the Unix tail command [closed]
If you use PowerShell then this works: Get-Content filenamehere -Wait -Tail 30 Posting Stefan’s comment from below, so people don’t miss it PowerShell 3 introduces a -Tail parameter to include only the last x lines
TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7
Windows can only show a limited number of Overlay Icons (15 total, 11 after what Windows uses). Programs like Office Groove, Dropbox, Mozy, Carbonite, etc, will hijack a bunch of the 11 possible overlay icons (boy would it be nice if Microsoft upped the number of these as the number of applications that use them … Read more
Aliases in Windows command prompt
To add to josh’s answer, you may make the alias(es) persistent with the following steps, Create a .bat or .cmd file with your DOSKEY commands. Run regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor Add String Value entry with the name AutoRun and the full path of your .bat/.cmd file. For example, %USERPROFILE%\alias.cmd, replacing the initial segment … Read more
In Windows cmd, how do I prompt for user input and use the result in another command?
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