Check if a file is really a file, whether a string contains anything, and whether you can run a program with these vital patterns.

A fully featured command line tool for post-exploitation operations on Microsoft SQL Server instances. Provides RCE (Remote Code Execution), privilege escalation, persistence, evasion, and cleanup ...

Why would you need it? The Salesforce Data Loader "as is" offers two ways of using it: This module is intended to fill the gap: You can run Salesforce Data Loader from of the PowerShell command line ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is doubling down on its plan to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic AI" platform, and in the process seems determined to strip away the last bits of user agency left in the OS.

The command line isn't required when using Linux. To truly maximize your Linux experience, you should still learn it. Some commands are more useful than others. Before we begin, I want to be clear: ...

Working with the command line is a key skill for developers, system administrators, and power users. While navigating directories with commands is standard, Windows 11 offers several shortcuts to ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

In this article, we cover three of them – PowerShell, Command Prompt, and Windows Terminal — explaining how they differ from each other and when they should be used. The operating system of your ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...