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Script: toggle-sound.vbs

toogle-sound.vbs is a VBScript script to mute or unmute audio/sound output from cmd.exe.

VBScript

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' mute/unmute audio
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' http://stackoverflow.com/a/35494000/180275 
'
createObject("WScript.Shell").sendKeys(chr(173))

The same functionality, but as PowerShell script

$sh = new-object -comObject wScript.shell

$sh.sendKeys( 173 -as [char] )