Martin’s IMHO AFAIK

IMHO: I don’t claim the universal truth / AFAIK: I write to the best of my knowledge

  • Standard Windows Cli Tools

    Table of Contents

    robocopy

    Overview

    robocopy is the modern, recommended way to do copying (of folders or many files) on DOS/Windows. The syntax etc seem quite straight-forward for long-time users of DOS and Windows sheels. But there is a catch, the used return values.

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  • Updates in september 2025 ...

    I added a new list page, where i will collect links to resource sources.

  • Windows Tricks

    In this post, I collect those special, who-needs-this-at-all tricks for using and configuring MS Windows, which are easily forgotten if not used often (or only setup once after a new installation).

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  • Using hugo

    Overview

    This post can probably be read in two ways: for some people, it might serve as a concise introduction on how to use hugo for setting up and maintaining a blog/homepage - the kind of concise, where almost only the bare commands are provided without much explanation. For others (including myself, and the main reason for this post) it can be a short reference of the (my) most used hugo commands.

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  • Discovering just

    What is just

    I recently stumbled upon this article about creating internal or personal cli’s, using just-cli. After give it a try, it seems to be a great tool if you want to create some kind of personal cli or keep a set of commands in one place. As a test run at work, I replaced a set of (small) batch files (most of them oneliners and twoliners) with a single justfile.

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  • Welcome to my blog

    Hi and welcome to my blog. I am Martin Lösch, and inspired by Ardalis i started this blog as a central point for keeping things i learned and don’t want to forget, and which may (or may not) be of interest for other people as well.

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