Peter's Digital Garden

Category: Blog

  • Bast: Bash & Windows Batch in same file

  • PUSHD – ? Batch Tip

    There is one annoying limitation to the cmd.exe command line interperter bundled with Windows. That program refuses to have a UNC path as a current directory. There are a pair of command you can use to get around this. Those commands are PUSHD and POPD</c http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317379

  • Setlocal – First Batch Tip

    I have several batch file tips to share. The first one deals with setlocal.  This command will give you a context in which you can change environment variables without worrying about what they should be after your batch file. All you need to do is call setlocal at the beginning of your batch file and…

  • Dropbox

    I’ve started using Dropbox to manage keep my desktop and laptop in sync.  The desktop is Windows and the laptop is Arch Linux.  So far, I have used it for documents and Portable Applications.  I’m considering using it as a central repository for the git version control program.  One of the nice things I have…

  • Deleting a locked file

    I was deleting a Cygwin installation and the folder was locked for some reasons.  So I went in and deleted each folder in the Cygwin folder.  All of those I deleted successfully.  However, the root Cygwin folder was still locked.  I found the program File & Folder Unlocker and that worked well.

  • First Post

    I figured I should start a blog to record some of the things I have learned.  Mostly these will include solutions to problems that I have encountered.