MD5 checksum
certutil -hashfile <filename> MD5
→ get the MD5 checksum of a_file
Deleting MS Edge
get-appxpackage *edge*
…then copy the PackageFullName value and paste it as argument to remove-appxpackage:
remove-appxpackage Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_115.0.1901.203_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe
On Windows updates Edge will usually be reinstalled, so you gotta do this regularly. (►__◄) Or you can use some tools to debloat Windows.
Get detailed network configurations
In order to display IP address, subnet masks, default gateways and DNS server configs of your current network, just execute ipconfig /all or Get-NetIPAddress.
Mounting an .iso file
In order to create a virtual drive and mount an .iso image, use the following command:
Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath "C:\whatever.iso"(For more information check the Windows Powershell docs.)
Creating an empty file
echo $null >> config.iniSetting a environment variable
$Env:AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="eu-central-1"Using .nvmrc files
If you have nvm installed, in shells such as zsh or bash you can just run nvm use in order to switch to the node version specified in your .nvmrc file. With nvm-windows it’s a little trickier. You will have to run the following command everytime before starting up your project in order to use the correct node version:
nvm use $(Get-Content .nvmrc)But chances are that you will forget it sometime and use a wrong node version and wonder why your application doesn’t work. Here is a smart gist with an alias for a script that works like nvm use. For more information, here is the relevant Github issue, which contains some more strategies to use nvm use on Windows and also an explanation why it will not be implemented as a native feature in nvm-windows.
Note that, if you want to use nvm-windows, it is advisable to uninstall your current node.js installation and reinstall this one with nvm as well. Otherwise, Powershell might still use the version of node your environment variable points to instead of the one targeted with nvm use.
Escaping whitespaces in SCP
In order to copy folders with whitespaces in their names from my seedbox (Ubuntu) to my Laptop (Windows), I use this command:
scp -r "me@myseedbox:'/home/me/downloads/qbittorrent/Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani (2005)'" C:\Users\Me\Videos\There’s several ways to escape whitespaces in Powershell and Linux shell of course, but this one is the only that worked for me when trying to copy from a Linux server to a Windows computer.
Copying files with SCP using a specific SSH key
scp -i "C:/Users/Me/.ssh/LightsailDefaultKey-eu-central-1.pem" -r "C:/xampp/htdocs/sensape/wp-content/themes/*" "user@12.345.678.999:/home/user/stack/wordpress/wp-content/themes"Creating an SSH tunnel
If you have a Bitname VM with a basic Wordpress installation, you will notice to for security reasons, you cannot access phpMyAdmin via http://12.345.678.999/phpMyAdmin, because this URL is only accessible using localhost (127.0.0.1) as the hostname. That means, you need to create an SSH tunnel, which will send requests to your server via localhost using our SSH key. In order to do so, run the following command:
ssh -N -L 8888:127.0.0.1:80 "user@12.345.678.999" -i "C:/Users/Me/.ssh/LightsailDefaultKey-eu-central- 1.pem"You can begin the command with ssh -f to keep the tunnel running in the background, so even when you are closing your terminal it will still be active. In order to close it then, you need to find the process ID by running ps and looking for a process namend ssh and using its PID run taskkill -pid <PID>> /F.
As an alternative to SSH tunnels, you can also use a SSH jumphost:
ssh -J user@REMOTEMACHINE:22 -p 22 user@12.34.56.7REMOTEMACHINE acts as a proxy here that forwards your request to 12.34.56.7, which is another remote resource.
SSH tunneling and jump hosts are explained visually in this article.
sudo on Windows
Running commands as admin in the same terminal window on Windows is not as straight-forward as in the Linux/Unix OS family. There’s a tool called gsudo which can be installed via chocolatey. In 2024 ›sudo for Windows‹ was introduced.
Display Wi-Fi passwords
In order to display the Wi-Fi passwords you have saved on your computer, you first have to list all the saved connections with netsh wlan show profiles and look for the name of the connection you want the password of. Then type netsh wlan show profile name="{NETWORK_NAME}" key=clear and it will display the password under Key Content.
Checking your DNS records
When setting DNS records, you can check whether they have propagated by using nslookup. For example, for a TXT record, you’d write nslookup -q=TXT _acme-challenge.example.de 8.8.8.8, which should yield a result like:
Server: dns.google
Address: 8.8.8.8
Non-authoritative answer:
_acme-challenge.example.de
text = "12345_78-abcdefghijklmnopqr__stuvwxyZXYWVUT"