{"id":36613,"date":"2005-01-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/01\/24\/bringing-cryptic-command-lines-to-windows\/"},"modified":"2005-01-24T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T07:00:00","slug":"bringing-cryptic-command-lines-to-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050124-00\/?p=36613","title":{"rendered":"Bringing cryptic command lines to Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe CMD.EXE batch language\n<a HREF=\"\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/01\/20\/357225.aspx\">\ncan be awfully cryptic<\/a>,\nbut for those who miss the richness of command lines like\n<\/p>\n<pre>\nkill -1 $(ps -ef | grep inetd | grep -v grep | tr -s \" \" | cut -f2 -d \" \")\n<\/pre>\n<p>or bursts of line noise masquerading as a pipeline of\n&#8220;find&#8221;, &#8220;sed&#8221;, and &#8220;awk&#8221; processes,\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/sfu\/\">\nMicrosoft Windows Services for Unix<\/a> is available for\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/sfu\/downloads\/default.asp\">\nfree download<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMD.EXE batch language can be awfully cryptic, but for those who miss the richness of command lines like kill -1 $(ps -ef | grep inetd | grep -v grep | tr -s &#8221; &#8221; | cut -f2 -d &#8221; &#8220;) or bursts of line noise masquerading as a pipeline of &#8220;find&#8221;, &#8220;sed&#8221;, and &#8220;awk&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-36613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The CMD.EXE batch language can be awfully cryptic, but for those who miss the richness of command lines like kill -1 $(ps -ef | grep inetd | grep -v grep | tr -s &#8221; &#8221; | cut -f2 -d &#8221; &#8220;) or bursts of line noise masquerading as a pipeline of &#8220;find&#8221;, &#8220;sed&#8221;, and &#8220;awk&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}