CmdScripts

A Cmd scripts which makes life easier.

Scripts list:

One-time usage:

• SkypeSecondary - Add to autostart variables second instance of Skype
• SkypeRemoveAdds - Block and remove adds from Skype
• AddContextMenuPowershell - Add to Explore context menu "Open folder in Powershell" and "Run Bypass/Admin ps1 script"

Utilities:

• EvaluatedRun - Execute script/executable as Admin
• [Which.cmd] (#whichcmd) - Determine file full path(linux Which analogue)
• [PKill.cmd] (#pkillcmd) - Kill windows app by name(taskkill simple wrapper to be more like linux pkill command)
• [Ps.cmd] (#pscmd) - List process (tasklist simple wrapper to be more like linux ps command)
• RunPowershell - Run powershell script with "Bypass"
• MsBuild - Run msbuild.exe
• WebDownload - download file from web
• Unzip - extract archive content
• AddPath - add directory to Env:Path
• BuildInstaller - Create installer from folder content

Runtime configuration:

• InstallBin - download scripts dependencies
• CmdAutoRun - add folder to Cmd.exe autostart
• CmdEnv - set Cmd.exe aliaeses and Path variable

Script templates:

• SvnCheckout - Checkout svn(with injections) and build
• Config - Init/Load config file
• Copy - Copy folder content
• AddRoutesTemplate - template for RouteConfig scripts

##The easiest way to get all scripts: Press Win+R keyboard hotkeys and insert into the window entire script provided below:

powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass "$dst=Read-Host 'Enter install folder:';$repo='https://github.com/stadub/CmdScripts/archive/master.zip';$f=[System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName()+'.zip';New-Object System.Net.WebClient|%{$_.DownloadFile($repo,$f);};$sh=New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application;$ar=$sh.NameSpace($f).Items();$af=$ar.Item(0).GetFolder.Items();mkdir $dst;$d=$sh.NameSpace($dst);$d.CopyHere($af, 272);& $dst\InstallBin.cmd;Write-Warning 'Add scripts to autorun?' -warningaction Inquire;& $dst\CmdAutoRun.cmd;pause"

#Runtime configuration scripts:

InstallBin.cmd

Helper script that fetch all scripts(Mainly Build.cmd) dependencies from the internet

InstallBin.cmd

CmdAutoRun.cmd

Add CmdEnv.cmd to Command line autorun.

CmdEnv.cmd

Helper script install aliases for scripts and insert scripts directory to the Path variable. Also loads aliases from files pointed in the DoskeyScripts env variale

InstallBin.cmd

#One-time usage useful utilities: #

SkypeSecondary.bat

Add to autorun entry which runs second Skype instance

SkypeAdds.cmd

Remove Adds from Skype

AddContextMenuPowershell.cmd

Add Open PowerShell Here entry to the Explorer directory context menu

Utilities:

EvaluatedRun.cmd

Shell script to allow to run commands with evaluated privileges

• Automatically resolves path to executable (from %Path% variable)
• In case of Admin shell(or disable UAC) just starts command

Example:

EvaluatedRun.cmd notepad C:\text.txt

Which.cmd

Shell script to resolve path to executable (bat/cmd/exe files supported)

Example:

Which.cmd notepad

PKill.cmd

Kill windows app by name. Just handy taskkill wrapper.

Example:

pkill.cmd note*

Ps.cmd

List process. Just handy tasklist wrapper.

Example:

ps.cmd note*

RunPowershell.cmd

Script is intended to run Powershell scripts from command line. Allows to avoid execution of scripts is disabled on this system message.

Example:

RunPowershell.cmd ls

MsBuild.cmd

Resolves location of the msbuild launcher to run msbuild project

Usage:

MsBuild.cmd myproject.project

Copy.bat

Copies current folder content to the folder set by arg

Copy.bat c:\

WebDownload.cmd

Download web resource

WebDownload.cmd https://github.com/stadub/CmdScripts/archive/master.zip c:\Sources\CmdScripts.zip

Unzip.cmd

Extract archive content

Unzip.cmd %CD%\CmdScripts.zip %CD%

AddPath.cmd

Add directory to PATH environment variable

AddPath.cmd c:\Sources\CmdScripts

Build

Installer script.

Require unpacked http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z920_extra.7z utils in the /bin directory.

##To install dependencies run InstallBin.com before installer script execution##

Usage:

To create installer generator script run:

Build.cmd [MyApp]

Sample Build.cmd Output:

Enter Application name:>        MyApp
Starting installer configuration for MyApp
Enter value for BeginPrompt:>   Do you want to install MyApp?
Enter value for SrcDir:>        C:\Sources\MyApp
Enter value for DestDir:>       C:\Program Files\MyApp

Application installer script generated successfully.
Use "c:\Sources\CmdScripts\Build_MyApp.cmd" to start installer script.
Press any key to continue . . .

Config variables

BeginPrompt="Do you want to install MyApp?" - The prompt will be shown during installation process

SrcDir="C:\Work\MyApp\Release\bin" - Directory with application being installed

DestDir="C:\Program Files\MyApp" - Directory application being installed

Description: Create installer script based on 7z SFX.

Create archive from %SrcDir% content and create SFX installer by combining 7zS.sfx + 7zConfig + Installer.7z to AppInstaller.exe

Installation performs copying archive content to the %DestDir% folder

Script templates and script libraries:

AddRoutesTemplate.bat

Batch file template to create a routing file

Usage:

AddRoutes.bat

SvnCheckout.bat

Allows to checkout svn repos via single script.

Script can be added to scheduler.

The "comon" repository that should be injected to the other repositories(external repo).

SvnCheckout.cfg contain properties to configure script.

Config.bat

Configuration scripts. Used as part of the other scripts to add script config files support.

Has 2 mode:

1. Interactive variables initialization when config file variable Init set to False

2. Creates variables from file when config file variable Init set to True

Usage:

Config file: Build.config

Init=False
Title=""

Config.bat build

Output:

Write variable Init="True"
Enter value for Title:My App
Write variable Title="My App"
        1 file(s) moved.
        1 file(s) moved.
Setting var Init "True"
Setting var Title "My App"