Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...

While it is not common to need to call Windows functions within Python code, you may occasionally need to do so in order to make a program work correctly. If you need to, you can run the cmd.exe ...

PowerShell is Microsoft’s alternative to their own Command Prompt. Earlier, Microsoft announced that they will be open sourcing PowerShell and will be bringing it to recent versions of different Linux ...