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