Learning CMD / Shell Scripting in Windows

Motivation

Sometimes we are just too lazy to open a python script to do some file manipulation. (where it actually use the system api). Why not just use system’s scripting language?

Sort, Filter File names and Write

https://metinsaylan.com/9270/how-to-sort-files-by-last-modified-date-using-powershell/

gci -file -Filter *calign* | sort LastWriteTime | select-object name

gci -file -Filter *align* | sort LastWriteTime | select-object name > gif_list.log

gci get-Children,

ls -ltr | egrep -v "^d"

Setting Alias for Programs

Sublime is super useful text editor to have, but how can we start it from cmd or shell?

• Add the folder in Program Files to the PATH env var.

  • E.g. C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3

• Set aliasing in cmd in administrator mode.

  cd "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\"
  mklink sublime.exe sublime_text.exe
  

• Or in Powershell

  Set-Alias subl 'C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe'
  

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9440639/sublime-text-from-command-line