logic involved » command line http://www.coliena.com/blog ... more often than not ... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:09:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Piping text to the clipboard in Vista and Windows 7http://www.coliena.com/blog/2010/05/piping-text-to-the-clipboard-in-vista-and-windows-7/ http://www.coliena.com/blog/2010/05/piping-text-to-the-clipboard-in-vista-and-windows-7/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 12:39:24 +0000 niels http://coliena.com/blog/?p=334 Microsoft added a new command line tool to Vista and Windows 7: clip.exe. This nifty little utility allows user to copy program output to the clipboard on the windows command line. Its usage is pretty straightforward:

dir | clip – copies the output of the dir command to the clipboard
clip < example.txt – copy the contents of the file example.txt to the clipboard

]]> http://www.coliena.com/blog/2010/05/piping-text-to-the-clipboard-in-vista-and-windows-7/feed/ 0 View and Kill Processes using the Windows Command Linehttp://www.coliena.com/blog/2010/04/view-and-kill-processes-using-the-windows-command-line/ http://www.coliena.com/blog/2010/04/view-and-kill-processes-using-the-windows-command-line/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:49:59 +0000 niels http://coliena.com/blog/?p=296 It’s pretty convenient to list and kill processes using ps and kill / pkill on *nix. Actually, you can do that on a Windows command line as well:

  • tasklist: shows a list of all running processes
  • taskkill: kills processes

Among other options, processes can be killed by their process ID (taskkill /PID 4711) and by the name of their executable (taskkill /IM firefox.exe).
So, if you have perl scripts running wild, just execute taskkill perl.exe to kill all of them down with a single command.

More lesser known Windows commands are described in this PDF.

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