Hi
everyone, in this post I will explore some important commands in windows., so let’s
start the journey.
The reason that I have written this post is to get familiarity about the important commands that can be used to automate tasks.
The reason that I have written this post is to get familiarity about the important commands that can be used to automate tasks.
The
commands that i will be exploring in this post are
1)
taskkill
2)
net stop | net start
3) appcmd start sites | appcmd stop sites
4) hostname
4) hostname
5)
shutdown
Note
– We can get help about the commands directly from the command prompt itself by typing
command_name
-? .
1)
taskkill
This
command is used to terminate tasks either by name (image name) or process id
(PID).
Syntax: taskkill {–PID Process_ID | -IM image_name}
When we open a notepad application a
process is started the image name is usually "notepad.exe" and the
process id is some number.
If
we open the notepad application again a new process is started with the same
image name “notepad.exe”, here the image name is same as the previous image name but for this instance the process id will be different.
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Note
- Each Image name will have a different process id and hence terminating a
process by its process id will close only that process.
Example:
To kill notepad application using the process id (here we assume the process id
for the opened notepad application is 5452)5452
taskkill
-PID 5452
To
terminate all the opened notepad applications using image name
taskkill
–IM “notepad.exe”
We
can specify whether to forcefully terminate by using the parameter –F
taskkill
–F –IM “notepad.exe”
2) net start and net
stop
The
net start command is used to start a service using the command prompt.
The
net stop command is used to stop a service from the command prompt.
Here
one important thing to note is net is a command and start or stop are
parameters / options
Syntax:
net start
“service_name”
net stop “service_name”
Example:
Starting and stopping SQL Services
net
start MSSQLSERVER
net
stop MSSQLSERVER
Tip: Using just net start in the command prompt we can see all the services that
are started.
Similarly
using net stop we can see all the
services that are stopped.
3)
appcmd start sites and appcmd
stop sites
The
appcmd start sites command is used to start particular site in IIS.
The
appcmd stop sites command is ued to stop particular site in IIS.
Note
– For the above commands to work the system path should be set to the directory
“Main_Drive:\Windows\System32\inetsrv”
Here,
replace Main_Drive with the letter of the drive where windows is installed,
usually it will be C .
Syntax:
appcmd start sites
“site_name”
appcmd stop sites
“site_name”
Example:
Starting and stopping the web site SampleWebSite
appcmd
start sites “SampleWebSite”
appcmd
stop sites SampleWebSite”
4) hostname
This
command is use to get the name of the computer (also called as the hostname).
Syntax: hostname
Example:
hostname
Tianhe-2
here, Tianhe-2 is the computer name.
or we can alternatively use the command systeminfo | findstr -B -C:"Host Name" to get the computer name
or we can alternatively use the command systeminfo | findstr -B -C:"Host Name" to get the computer name
5)
shutdown
The
shutdown command can be used to perform various system tasks like shutdown,
restart , log off , hibernate etc.
Syntax: shutdown
Note
– Let’s assume “testmachine” is the name of the computer for the below
examples ,
when
executing in your machine type the correct name of your machine, we can get the
name of the machine using the command hostname as explained in earlier post
To
restart a computer we can use the –r parameter as shutdown \\computer_name –r
shutdown
\\testmachine –r
To
Log Off a computer we can use the –l parameter like shutdown
\\computer_name -l
Shutdown
\\testmachine –l
cmd
- shutdown -i
The
above command will display a pop window where we need to add the computer to
shutdown/Restart/LogOff
We
have to select the option in the pop up window to
shutdown/Restart/LogOff
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