- Open a remote terminal on a windows machine
rdesktop -k en-gb hepterm2000
- Mount a windows drive in linux
smbclient //hepwin2000s0/users
- Mount a windows drive in windows Xp. Enter mountvol to list volumes.
mountvol [drive:]path VolumeName
- Unmount volume in Windows Xp.
mountvol [drive:]path /D
- Unmount and remove volume label in Windows Xp.
diskpart
for an interactive session ordiskpart /s unmount.txt
where unmount.txt contains the commandsselect disk 0 select volume 2 remove letter L exit
- Hibernate using a command line in Windows Xp.
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate
- Unmounting a file system when hibernating using a batch script in Windows Xp.
@ECHO on mountvol L: /D for /l %%X in (1,1,500) do echo off @mountvol L: \\?\Volume{37cf12da-033e-11dd-82b1-806d6172696f}\ for /l %%X in (1,1,500) do echo off diskpart /s diskpart-unmount.txt @REM if %errorlevel%==0 (echo SUCcess) Else (echo failure) if %errorlevel%==0 (rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate) Else (echo failure;pause)- Adjust power management using a command line in Windows Xp.
powercfg
- Get access control list permissions of a file
getfacl the_filename
- Set access control list permissions for a particular user
setfacl -m user:the_user:r-x the_filename
- Strip off filename extension
basename thefile theExt
- Strip off filename path
basename thefile
- Get user and group ids
id
Ajit Kurup
Last modified: Tue Nov 20 17:05:53 GMT Standard Time 2007