Some useful tools - Miscellaneous Command-line Tools

This repository contains a few command-line tools I wrote in a hurry, and might be useful to others.

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FinalPathName

Outputs the final path of the given file or folder name, i.e. all junctions and symlinks are resolved. See the MSDN article on GetFinalPathNameByHandle for more details.

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IsWorkstationLocked

Reports whether the workstation is locked, or waits for the given status. See its help output for more info:

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ConvertCharset

Reads a text file using the specified character set, and writes it using a different character set. Useful for converting old DOS era plain text files to the modern age (i.e. UTF-8). :-)

Converts a text file from one code page to another
ConvertCharset [/r=<codepage>] infile /w=<codepage> [outfile] [/b]

infile         The file containing the text to convert. Use a hyphen to read from stdin.
outfile        The file to write the converted text to. If omitted, the output is
               written to infile. Use a hyphen to write to stdout.
/r=<codepage>  The character set or code page of infile. If omitted, the system's
               default (ANSI) character set is assumed.
/w=<codepage>  The character set or code page to convert the text to.

For <codepage>, you can either use a code page number, or a charset name as supported
by the system.

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