30 ODDS AND ENDS

Throughout this book, I’ve endeavored to write short, concise chapters about pointed topics, while introducing a few related commands along the way. In this chapter, I’ll discuss a few interesting topics that couldn’t find a home in any of the other chapters and were too short to constitute chapters of their own, but these topics are no less important or helpful than the others.

With these odds and ends, you’ll learn how to sort files and interrogate the registry for useful information. You’ll also learn how to retrieve and set the attributes of files and directories, and I’ll discuss bit manipulation to round out the book’s ...

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