Command Line Tools

1. Setup

• Powershell 7
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows
  • notepad $profile or code $profile
    • https://gist.github.com/UndefinedVoidNull/055e23f8d9df82cf650d4e5f0a8f6f06
    • Set-Alias -Name ALIAS_NAME -Value COMMAND -Scope Global
• Windows Terminal
  • Set AHK Shortcut: Win + Backtick to open wt.exe

  #`::Run, wt.exe

• MSYS2
  • https://www.msys2.org/
  • Add to $env:path
• Starship
  • https://starship.rs/
  • Config:
    • Win+R: %USERPROFILE%\.config\starship.toml
    • https://gist.github.com/UndefinedVoidNull/24cd0afd8bab03950723eebcc4a5806b
• On-My-Posh (Not Recommend)
  • https://ohmyposh.dev/

2. Basic Tools

• Package Manager
  • winget
  • choco
  • scoop
• lsd (ls)
  • https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd
• z zoxide (smarter cd)
  • https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
• rg ripgrep (grep)
  • https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
• bat (cat)
  • https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
• fd (find)
  • https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
• fzf (fuzzy find)
  • https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
• dua Disk Usage Analyzer (du)
  • https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli
• gsudo (sudo)
  • https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
• icdiff Improved colored diff (diff)
  • https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff
• new (New-Item) (Paste into $profile)

function new {
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory)]
        [string]$Name
    )

    if ($Name -match '\.') {
        # Contains a dot, assume it's a file
        New-Item -Path $Name -ItemType File -Force
    } else {
        # No dot, assume it's a directory
        New-Item -Path $Name -ItemType Directory -Force
    }
}

3. Application Tools

• conda Anaconda
  • https://www.anaconda.com/download-success
• gh GitHub CLI
  • https://cli.github.com/
• ffmpeg
  • https://www.ffmpeg.org/
• magick ImageMagick
  • https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php
• http httpie (curl)
  • https://github.com/httpie/cli
• yt-dlp
  • https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
• aria2c
  • https://aria2.github.io/
• calibre
  • https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows
  • https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/cli-index.html
  • ebook-convert
    • https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html
  • 2pdf (Paste into $profile)

  function 2pdf {
    param (
        [string]$inputFile
    )
  
    if (-not $inputFile) {
        Write-Host "Usage: 2pdf 'inputfile'"
        return
    }
  
    # Ensure the input file exists
    if (-not (Test-Path $inputFile)) {
        Write-Host "Error: File '$inputFile' does not exist."
        return
    }
  
    # Determine the output file name by changing the extension to .pdf
    $outputFile = [System.IO.Path]::ChangeExtension($inputFile, "pdf")
  
    # Run ebook-convert
    try {
        ebook-convert $inputFile $outputFile
        Write-Host "Converted '$inputFile' to '$outputFile'"
    } catch {
        Write-Host "Error: Conversion failed. Ensure 'ebook-convert' is installed and supports the input file format."
    }
  }

4. Commons

• code (Open With Visual Studio Code)
• h (history)
• cls (clear)
• pwd print current directory
• ipconfig /flushdns
• netsh interface ip show dns
• netsh wlan show profiles
• netsh wlan show profile name="Wi-Fi_Name" key=clear
• ping
• ssh
• ssh-keygen
• ftp
• robocopy
• ps Get-Process
• kill Stop-Process
• gc -head 10 Get-Content (head)
• gc -tail 10 Get-Content (tail)
• Rename-Item old_name new_name (mv)
• Get-Alias

5. Git

https://git-scm.com/downloads/win

• .git
• .gitignore

git init
git add # add files to staging area
git commit -m "..." # commit to local repo

git clone
git push origin main
git push origin
git push
git pull # fetch and merge
git fetch
git merge
git rebase

git branch
git checkout
git merge

git status
git log
git diff

6. Win + R

• shell:startup
• %USERPROFILE%
• %USERPROFILE%/Desktop
• %USERPROFILE%/Downloads
• %USERPROFILE%/Documents
• %USERPROFILE%/Pictures
• %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
• %APPDATA%
• %LOCALAPPDATA%
• %WINDIR%
• %WINDIR%\system32
• %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
• %PROGRAMFILES%
• %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%
• %TEMP%