Resource Hacker

Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications. It's both a resource compiler (for *.rc files), and a decompiler - enabling viewing and editing of resources in executables (*.exe; *.dll; *.scr; etc) and compiled resource libraries (*.res, *.mui). While Resource Hacker™ is primarily a GUI application, it also provides many options for compiling and decompiling resources from the command-line.

Command Line Syntax:
Just about all the functionality of Resource Hacker™ can be accessed from the command line without having to open the Resource Hacker™ GUI.
Command line instructions and Resource Hacker™ scripts can remove the drudgery entailed with repeating Resource Hacker™ tasks.
Command-line instructions are a combination of switch statements followed by switch parameters as explained in the following table: Command line statements:

Switch		Parameter
-open		filename - the name of the file that is to be modified. It should be a Windows PE file (.exe, .dll etc) or a compiled or uncompiled resouce file (.res or .rc)
-save		usually a filename for the new or modified file, but can also be a folder when extracting multiple resources
-resource		filename - contains a resource being added to the opened file.
-action		action to be performed on the opened file add - add a resource, but fails if it already exists addoverwrite - add a resource, and overwriting if it already exists addskip - add a resource, but skipping if it already exists compile - compiles a resource script file (.rc) to a binary resource file (.res) delete - delete a resource extract - extract a resource modify - modify a resource changelanguage(langID) - changes the language of ALL resources
-mask		resource mask - Type,Name,Language commas are mandatory but each of Type, Name & Language are optional
-log		Filename or CONSOLE or NUL CONSOLE can be abbreviated to CON Logs the details of the operation performed If this switch is omitted, the log will be written to resourcehacker.log
-script		filename - contains a multi-command script, NOT a resource script for more info: -help script
-help		options - command-line or script (always logged to CONSOLE) other switches are ignored.

Notes:

Switch identifiers (except -script) may be abbreviated down to a single char (eg -res or -r).
Switch instructions do not have to be in any particular order.
File names that contain spaces must be enclosed within double quotes.

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