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Those snippets cover various methods to retrieve system serial numbers and hardware information across different operating systems and platforms. dmidecode -t 1 wmic bios get seria…
net stop TermService reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing net start TermService
How to use ESXi partedUtil deletion of disk device partitions? If you came along the ESXi issue, unable of adding datastore (check fig.1 error), most likely your dev…
Linux Gentoo is now by default installing GRUB2 instead of GRUB, LILO is considered Legacy, yet still accessible emerge package. Install of GRUB2 on /dev/sda grub2-install --grub-s…
How to generate random ascii art in shell: wget -qO - http://www.asciiartfarts.com/random.cgi | sed -n '/<pre>/,/<\/pre>/p' | sed -n '/<table*/,/<\/table>/p' |…
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Searching.htmlTo search backward in the history for a particular string, type C-r. Typing C-s searches forward through the history…
OR $ grep "1\|2" 1.txt 1 2 $ grep -E "1|2" 1.txt 1 2 grep -E "^1$|2" 1.txt 1 2 grep -e 1 -e 2 1.txt 1 2 egrep "1|2" 1.txt 1 2 AND grep -E '1.*2' 2.txt 1 2 grep '1' 2.txt | grep '2'…
With AWK: awk '{ sub("\r$", ""); print }' windows.txt > unix.txt awk 'sub("$", "\r")' unix.txt > windows.txt With TR tr -d '\15\32' < winfile.txt > unixfile.txt  …
:~ ${HOSTNAME}$ cd Library/Application\ Support/Skype/${USERNAME}/ sqlite3 main.db sqlite> select * from messages sqlite> delete from messages where id > 2904; sqlite>…
dism /online /get-features DISM.EXE /enable-feature /online /featureName:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-ASP;IIS-FTPserver;IIS-FTPsrv DISM.EXE /enable-feature /online /featureName:IIS-ASP DI…