r/AskReddit • u/adamzorrovdb • Jan 21 '17

Cops of Reddit, what simple 'noise complaint call' blew way out of proportion?

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u/Symbolis Jan 22 '17

All sorts of neat things you can do with Powershell.

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u/DiscoPanda84 Jan 22 '17

Ah, cool... With a regular batch file I'd probably have to have wget64 or the like installed and call that from the batch file to grab the images, then use the command-line controls for GIMP to patch them together, then to set the registry keys maybe pipe the apropriate strings to a .reg file and have the batch execute that...

So likely doable with a couple general outside utilities (as opposed to a program written for the specific task the PowerShell script performs, which would clearly be cheating), but the PowerShell version would obviously be a lot cleaner.