Which is an indispensable utility in Unixes. For years, I wondered why Windows doesn't have a similar utility. Found out today, it does. Its called where. Man I feel stupid.
Which Is Where!
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utilities
Checksum For Your Protection
I've just started playing with Python again. Figured I update all my tools, including PyCharm which happens to be an excellent IDE BTW. I noticed the checksum for the PyCharm executable but never knew of any Windows program to generate checksums. I did some Googling and found out that Windows already has a tool built-in: certutil. Wonderful.
To generate a SHA256 checksum for a file, all you need to do is is use -hashfile give it the file name and then specify the hash scheme. For example:
d:\certutil -hashfile pycharm-community-2016.1.exe SHA256
SHA256 hashof file pycharm-community-2016.1.exe:
3c b3 39 66 02 aa 0c 57 06 48 9e af 16 6b 4f 52 be 78 5b d7 17 da d5 49 21 20 f3 e4 de 25 91 cb
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.
Kill me already.
Delete. Retry. Retry. Retry.
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Been cleaning up my hard drive and came across a strange problem. No matter what I did, I could not delete some directories. The "Item Not Found" box kept popping up. I can rename the files but I couldn't delete it. I tried chkdsk with many, many options many, many times but it couldn't find the problem. The only thing that worked was a little tool called DelinvFile. I don't know how it works, but it just works. If your are stuck in a similar problem, try it out.