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Generate Random GUID by script

August 13, 2008 – 12:16 am

I had a task in hand to read and update a few registry settings. Since the registry keys might change in future and some more changes might be required on the fly, I decided to go with script instead of a config driven executable. Also, one compelling reason was that it has been some time [...]

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Power of Unix on Windows

July 22, 2008 – 12:30 am

I am an ardent admirer of console commands. For a very fast execution of the most simple tasks, I rely on cmd. About an year back I saw my tech architect using Grep on windows. Until then I didn’t know how effective it could be on Windows platform. At that very moment I downloaded unix-utilities [...]

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