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in thread Perl For Windows System Administration

Good grief it's a joke

A very poor one indeed.

There are FAR too many things you CANNOT do from the command line.

Name them. I've found that most of the things that I thought I could not do from the CLI, I was able to accomplish with some scripting, the Resource Kits, and some ingenuity.

ibanix

$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;

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Re^5: Perl For Windows System Administration
by Solo (Deacon) on Mar 16, 2003 at 15:50 UTC
    Name them.

    Here's one: set the 'At Service Account' for the Task Scheduler with a script that does not use the SendKeys API to do it through the GUI.

    I've got US$50 for the person who delivers that script.

    I do think that WMI and ADSI are really spiffy and that the Windows command-line support has improved greatly since NT 3.5.

    --Solo

    --
    Well, why don't you use your divine influence and get us out of this?
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      Is that new in Windows XP or Windows 2003? I haven't had a chance to explore any of the new features in those versions of Windows yet.

      Cheers,
      ibanix

      $ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;
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