2 29 2024 Lab Journal System Administration Tools - Jsheepy101/SYS-140 GitHub Wiki

Tools and their functions

Command: psinfo

• psinfo aka process info, allows you to see the information of a current running process

Command: DU

• DU aka Disk Usage allows you to see the current amount of space being taken up by files and items inside of a directory.
• -V option allows you to see every single file and its lone disk usage

Command: Hex2Dec

• Converts hexadecimal to decimal, also works the other way around

Command: pskill

• pskill aka Process Kill is essentially a stronger version of task manager. Type pskill (PID) and then the process will immediately stop.
• the -T option also kills any processes created by that process. So if calculator opens up another tab, that tab will also be killed

Command: Bginfo *Bginfo aka Background Info shows all of the background info of your computer. This includes things such as IPs and the Default Gateway.

• The switch /TIMER allows you to extend the automatic 10 second closing window.