up.cmd

A Windows script for updating a bunch of things with one command. Engineered explicitly for home use and COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! 🎉

Currently supports

• Chocolatey
• Windows Package Manager a.k.a. winget
• TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker
• Windows Update

This is also the execution order so that winget won't steal choco's thunder, TNUC does its thing in the background while you got bored watching the app packages roll in and potential reboot prompts from Windows Update come in last.

Features

• A goddamn exclude list for winget.
  • For when winget upgrade --all is just too dangerous/stupid
  • You gotta admit that's pretty good

Requirements

• sudo (scoop install sudo)
  • Optional, if you want to start a dedicated Administrator terminal every time, like a chump. The rest are non-negotiable.
• grep
  • Looks like I did choco install grep mine
• head, tail and sort
  • Mine look like GnuWin CoreUtils but didn't come from choco install gnuwin32-coreutils.install so I probably just downloaded them from SourceForge. LOL, this box is old.
• PSWindowsUpdate Module for Windows Update
  • Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate

Make sure you get this stuff installed and along your PATH as we're gonna be working on first name basis.

How to

You go up and if you did everything correctly, it works.

But

You mentioned a winget exclude list?

Yeah. You put a file called winget-exclude.lst in your home directory, or %USERPROFILE%. It's a text file of winget IDs, one per line, that you don't want up.cmd to tell winget to update.

TODO

• Kinda feel like I should support Scoop since I'm using it.
• Configurability
  • Preserve Desktop .lnk garbage, anyone?
• Run modes for
  • Update checking
  • Unattended updating
  • Interactive mode
  • Current state is a mish-mash of all of the above