Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/240171/launching-a-application-exe-from-c/240189#240189
Hi folks,
i have a free command line tool called FW Tools. Works great. Here is a sample line i enter in the console window :-
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -a_srs "EPSG:26986" -t_srs "EPSG:4326"
towns_geodetic.shp TOWNSSURVEY_POLY....
Hi,
I'm trying to use the below command to execute for generating the log file for SSIS package.
DTExec /FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\CP0808\My Documents\Test.dtsx" /logger "DTS.LogProviderTextFile;c:\log.txt"
But it got the error as below. Please advise.
Started: 12:03:20 AM
Error: 2009-05-04 12:03:21.15
Code: 0xC001000E
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I've got a rake task that I am making that needs to insert a value into multiple databases.
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How can I remove a user from a group from the command line in OpenSolaris (2008.11)?
I know I can define a user's primary group and a add a user to a group with:
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usermod -G group_list user
What's the corresponding command to undo that action and remove a user from the group without just editing /etc/group...
Hi,
I'm trying to launch a website url in a new tab using python in that way, but it didn't worked in these both ways:
Method 1:
os.system('C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe -new-tab http://www.google.com/');
and Method 2:
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If ...
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'When the application terminates, the
working directory is restored to its
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Hi,
The tail command on the DOS does not seem to be recognized on my XP. Any suggestions on printing last few lines on a very big log file on DOS.
Thanks
Arun
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say i have a directory with hi.txt and blah.txt and i execute the following command on a linux-ish command line
ls *.* | xargs -t -i{} echo {}
the output you will see is
echo blah.txt
blah.txt
echo hi.txt
hi.txt
i'd like to redirect the stderr output (say 'echo blah.txt' fails...), leaving only the output from the xargs -t command w...
How do I change Firefox Proxy settings via command line on windows xp/2k?
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Forget fancy shmancy web stuff. I'm looking for a good .NET CLI argument processing utility, prefer open source code. This is for quick and dirty utilities that need robust and friendly command line argument handling.
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How to I extract a subdirectory in a tarball into the current directory?
Example, the tarball from wordpress:
wordpress/
wordpress/wp-trackback.php
wordpress/wp-config-sample.php
wordpress/wp-settings.php
wordpress/wp-rss2.php
wordpress/readme.html
wordpress/index.php
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I want my Python script to be able to read Unicode command line arguments in Windows. But it appears that sys.argv is a string encoded in some local encoding, rather than Unicode. How can I read the command line in full Unicode?
Example code: argv.py
import sys
first_arg = sys.argv[1]
print first_arg
print type(first_arg)
print first_...
In eclipse, the m2eclipse plugin will prompt me for my credentials when I'm building a maven2 project. And it compiles fine.
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Greetings.
I have a project for my Data Structures class, which is a file compressor that works using Binary Trees and other stuff. We are required to "zip" and "unzip" any given file by using the following instructions in the command line:
For compressing: compressor.exe -zip file.whatever
For uncompressing: compressor.exe -unzip...
I'm creating a mainly GUI Cocoa app, but I want to create a command line front end as well that prints the same data so I can display it using geektool.
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I'm trying to run a command-line program and piping in a file. The command works fine on the command-line, but I can't seem to get it to work with the Process object in C#. Here's the command I'm issuing:
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