Tag Archives: shell

Update to quick one-liner Windows unzips

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

So this one is taken from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/daiken/2007/02/12/compress-files-with-windows-powershell-then-package-a-windows-vista-sidebar-gadget/

echo $zipfilename=$args[0]; $destination=$args[1];if(test-path($zipfilename)) {$shellApplication = new-object -com shell.application;$zipPackage = $shellApplication.NameSpace($zipfilename);$destinationFolder = $shellApplication.NameSpace($destination); $destinationFolder.CopyHere($zipPackage.Items()); };>unzip.ps1

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -File unzip.ps1 %FullPathToZip% %FullPathToTarget%

This was tested on PSv2.

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Bash Pitfalls

Monday, July 15th, 2013

I was on IRC.. and noticed this link.. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls,
if I had only known earlier…

Tons of useful information on Bash Pitfalls… as well as tons of habits to change… :/

My error was specifically #22,
cmd1 && cmd2 || cmd3 where I had assumed cmd2 is going to exit 0.

In most of my usecases… my command is in the form of cmd1 || sleep # && cmd3, I just naturally assume sleep is going to return 0.

Well, luckily for me, it has worked for the most part… but definitely need to change a number of my scripting habits…

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