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Reputation: 3055

Finding unofficial command line switches

How can I go about finding out command line arguments for a given application? I know you can use /? and, if the app supports it, it'll display the switches, but is there a way to find 'unofficial' ones in a program?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3130

Answers (2)

Redsandro
Redsandro

Reputation: 11356

For finding silent install switches, I found Universal Silent Switch Finder 1.5.0.0 to be helpful. Because the original version is very old, I cannot find it on the original website, but softpedia has a download up: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Universal-Silent-Switch-Finder-Download-180984.html

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Placek
Daniel Placek

Reputation: 765

Obviously google is the easiest answer... barring that... I don't think there is any special alternative to /? that will give you additional options. You might try running "strings" against the executable in question. That may spit out some hidden options. "strings" comes with most(all?) unix distributions, for windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897439

If your not familiar with strings... it just spits out every string it can find inside an executable... it's often useful for finding hidden things.

Upvotes: 5

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