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Clink combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, which provides rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities. Readline is best known for its use in the well-known Unix shell Bash, the standard shell for Mac OS X and many Linux distributions.

StExBar provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like.

If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you're still working at the keyboard, so won't lock the screen or activate the screensaver.

How to execute perl without having to type the .pl extension

For Windows you'll need to add ";.pl" to the PATHEXT environment variable. (given that the .pl extension is associated with the perl executable, which is always the case with a normal Active Perl installation.)

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