Miscellaneous Windows 10 One liners

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** if you do not get what you are looking for, kindly look at Microsoft Support Documents, also utilize powershell's built-in feature to spit some common examples which is super helpful.

This article will be updated from time to time.

calculate MD5,SHA1,SHA256 etc hash value **(powershell)** .

PS C:\User\user > ```CertUtil -hashtype ```

http://dillinger.io/CertUtil -hashfile <absolute_relative_file_path> <hash_type>

file_type_absolute_relative_path example:

Absolute file path example: C:\Users\user\file.filetype

Relative file path example: file.filetype

The difference between absolute file path and relative file path is that absolute file path is full path to the file regardless of the file's location in the drive whereas relative file path is given working directory, regardless of full path to the file.

>Example: CertUtil -hashfile C:\User\User\File.ext </span><span class="token md md-code">``</span><span class="token md md-code">``</span><span class="token md md-code"> you should get a bunch of numbers.

MD5,SHA1,SHA256 etc hash value (cmd)

> -> powershell -Command "CertUtil -hashfile </span><span class="token md md-code">``</span><span class="token md md-code">``</span><span class="token md md-code"> </span><span class="token md md-code">``</span><span class="token md md-code">``</span><span class="token md md-code">"

>Following command does exact same operation as above, using command-prompt

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