Windows

WSL

• wsl -- bash - when you screw up your shell configuration and you need to start a shell clean
• DejaVu Sans Mono for Powershell seems to work
• Meslo LG S DZ Regular for Powerline.ttf
• start a tmux everytime

if command -v tmux &> /dev/null && [ -n "$PS1" ] && ! "$TERM" =~ screen  && ! "$TERM" =~ tmux  && [ -z "$TMUX" ]; then
 exec tmux
fi

Powershell

Get-ChildItem

• ls | sort lastwritetime - equivalent of POSIX ls -lrt
  • Amazingly, you CAN'T get human-readable filesize like ls -lh without a bunch of scripting - STUPID!
• dir is an alias for Get-ChildItem = ls
• dir env: - show all environment variables
  • echo $Env:Path - show just one

Copy-Item

• Copy-Item -Path "C:\Logfiles" -Destination "C:\Drawings\Logs" -Recurse

Pipes

• | more - like linux
• | Out-File "\\server\share\log$($env.computername-Get-Date -f yyyy-MM-dd)-logfile.log" -Force pipe output of operation to log file
• | Get-Member -MemberType property - What are the things you can sort by?

Filesystems

• Get-PsDrive -PsProvider FileSystem equivalent of df -h

Formatting Storage Devices

• Only works if you're running powershell as admin
• get-disk
• Get-Disk 2 | Clear-Disk -RemoveData - Cleans a disk by removing all partition information and un-initializing it, erasing all data on the disk.
• New-Partition -DiskNumber 1 -UseMaximumSize
• get-partition -disknumber 1 | format-volume -filesystem exFAT -newfilesystemlabel ChrisPhone
• get-partition -disknumber 1 | set-partition -newdriveletter d - mount the newly created drive
• Get-PnpDevice | sort-object -property class | more - list all plug and play devices

Other

• notepad.exe $PROFILE - edit the equivalent of your .bashrc
  • Can also edit global rcfile $PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts
  • Profile comments lines begin with hash #
• get-command = equivalent to which
• $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
• Install-Module <modulename>
• Get-Command -module <modulename>

• Restart-Computer
• type is an alias for Get-Content = cat
• Ctrl-L clears screen
• help - equivalent of POSIX man
• "{0} GB" -f ((Get-ChildItem . -Recurse | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum -ErrorAction Stop).Sum / 1GB) - get folder size
  • Install-Module PSFolderSize