maciakl’s gists

maciakl / shadowcopy.cmd

Created July 1, 2022 04:34

Interactive helper script to create a shadowcopy job that will create a snapshot of your c: drive every day at 1pm.

	@echo off
	if "%1" == "elevated" goto start
	powershell -command "Start-Process %~nx0 elevated -Verb runas"
	goto :eof



	:start
	@echo off
	cls

maciakl / admin.cmd

Created July 1, 2022 04:28

Interactive helper script to activate Admin account and change it's password

	@echo off
	if "%1" == "elevated" goto start
	powershell -command "Start-Process %~nx0 elevated -Verb runas"
	goto :eof

	:start

	@echo off
	cls

maciakl / rename.cmd

Last active July 1, 2022 04:25

	@echo off
	if "%1" == "elevated" goto start
	powershell -command "Start-Process %~nx0 elevated -Verb runas"
	goto :eof

	:start

	@echo off
	cls

maciakl / .vimrc_minimal

Last active May 31, 2025 02:47

Minimal .vimrc for servers

	nnoremap <space> <nop>
	let mapleader="\<space>"
	inoremap jj <esc>
	noremap <C-l> [sz=
	set number
	set cursorline
	set showmatch
	set hlsearch
	set incsearch
	set spell

maciakl / debian_logo_motd.sh

Created June 26, 2022 17:34

A nice script generating a red Debian Spiral logo. Perfect for your MOTD.

	#!/bin/bash
	echo -e "\e[1;31m"
	echo -e " _,edm\$\$\$\$\$on."
	echo -e " ,d\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$P."
	echo -e " ,g\$\$P\"\" \"\"\"Y\$\$.\"."
	echo -e " ,\$\$P' \`\$\$\$."
	echo -e " ',\$\$P ,ggs. \`\$\$b:"
	echo -e " \`d\$\$' ,\$P\"' . \$\$\$"
	echo -e " \$\$P d\$' , \$\$P"
	echo -e " \$\$: \$\$. - ,d\$\$'"

maciakl / cleanup.cmd

Created January 13, 2022 15:59

Script to clean up your Downloads directory by deleting all files and folders older than 14 days

	@echo off
	REM Remove files older than 14 days
	forfiles /p "C:\Users\lmaciak\Downloads" /s /m . /c "cmd /c Del @path" /d -14
	forfiles /p "C:\Users\lmaciak\Downloads" /s /d -14 /c "cmd /c if @isdir == TRUE RMDIR /S /Q @path"

maciakl / servicetag.cmd

Created January 13, 2022 15:56

Get the service tag (Dell) or vendor assigned serial number of your computer. This returns just the number, without other wmic output.

	@echo off
	for /f "skip=1" %%a in (
	'wmic bios get serialnumber'
	) do echo %%a & goto next
	:next

maciakl / localip.cmd

Created January 13, 2022 15:55

Get you local ip address from the Windows command line

	@echo off
	for /f "delims=[] tokens=2" %%a in ('ping -4 -n 1 %ComputerName% ^\| findstr [') do set NetworkIP=%%a
	echo %NetworkIP%

maciakl / whatismyip.cmd

Created January 13, 2022 15:54

Get your public/routable ip address from the windows command line

	@echo off
	for /f "tokens=1* delims=: " %%A in (
	'nslookup myip.opendns.com. resolver1.opendns.com 2^>NUL^\|find "Address:"'
	) Do set ExtIP=%%B
	echo %ExtIP%

maciakl / python_same_window_fix.cmd

Created January 10, 2022 21:27

This fixes the issue on Windows where running Python script directly by invoking its name (eg. script.py) on the command line, launches a new console window, instead of showitg the output in the same console.

	rem Run CMD.EXE as Admin, then
	assoc .py=Python.File

	rem Assuming you installed Python via the Microsoft use below
	rem If yuou installed Python via an installer, substitute the absolute path to the python executable
	ftype Python.File=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe "%1" %*

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