Let's take example of a command "example-command". I open terminal I write example-command in terminal, and example-command executes. Now if I close terminal, example-command gets killed too. I now try with "example-command &", but the same behaviour. How do I execute a command so that when I close the terminal, the command doesn't g...
Hi, I would like to send an email from an application that contains the current ip address of the machine. I have the email code in place and it works. I just need to add the ipaddress to the body of the email (ie I am not doing anything programmatically with the IP address). I was hoping there was a really simple way like running ipc...
I have a chunk of fairly random binary data. I want to find where that chunk exists in a file, how many times it occurs, and at what byte (or sector) offsets. Any ideas on how to do that? Thanks, Justin ...
Apparently the answer to my question "Can I restrict nose coverage output to directory (rather than package)?" is no, but I can pass a --coverage-package=PACKAGE option to nose with the package name of each .py file in the directory. So for example, if the directory contains: foo.py bar.py baz.py ...then I would need to use the comma...
I need to add a new user via the command line in single-user mode. I reinstalled OS X earlier, and for some reason, it didn't create my user account properly. Now I can't log in. So I'm wondering how exactly I can go about creating a new user account without reinstalling everything. I tried this, but it didn't work: http://osxdaily.c...
Given a need to write command line utilities to do common tasks like uploading files to a remote FTP site, downloading data from a remote MySQL database etc. Is it practical to use JavaScript for this sort of thing? I know there are JavaScript interpreters that can be run from the command line, but are there libraries for things like F...
Anyone know of a command line utility (or one that can run as a command line) that will collect all the .jpg files in a directory tree to a single folder, only copying files that change? I started with Renamer, which is great for renaming files in their current directories, but fell short when I tried to mangle the path. This is probab...
Is there a program like Visual Studio that allows you to debug (dos) batch files? What techniques could I use to debug? Martin Brown answered a batch file question with a nice for / each loop. I would love to see the values of the variables as they loop. for /R A %i IN (*.jpg) DO xcopy %i B /M ...
I'd like to do something like "dsquery * | grep asdf" on a Windows machine that I can't install anything on. Any ideas? Thank you. ...
Duplicate of: What parameter parser libraries are there for C++? Option Parsers for c/c++? What is the best way of parsing command-line arguments in C++ if the program is specified to be run like this: prog [-abc] [input [output]] Is there a library in STL to do this? Related: Parsing command line arguments in a unicode C+...
I need to print the content of a fifo (named pipe) to standard output. I could use the command: cat fifo The problem is that cat doesn't return. It stays running, waiting for more content coming from the fifo. But I know there wont be any more content coming for a while so I just want to print what's available. Is there a command tha...
How do you suppress the annoying dialogs from the command line? I'm using windows 7 (WMWare), latest command line client from collab.net, I'm getting a simple confirmation dialog when I issue a checkout command. nothing to do but hit OK, however i'd rather not be asked. ...
I'm building an application with multilanguage support in TMX. I've found some editors for windows, but since I'm developing on a remote server, I'm looking for a command line tool for linux to translate strings and write them to a TMX file. Does anyone know of such tools ? ...
I would like to do some simple parsing within a batch file. Given the input line: Foo: Lorem Ipsum 'The quick brown fox' Bar I want to extract the quoted part (without quotes): The quick brown fox Using only the standard command-line tools available on Windows XP. (I had a look at find and findstr but they don't seem quite flexib...
This should be a really simple question but somehow I cannot find the answer to it. My apologies if I have missed something blindingly obvious. I am writing a script which will add a new project in the repository, based on the name supplied by the user. Part of this involves checking that an url with the same name does not already exist...
Hi. my old and new directory have same folders and files inside. I try "mv -if old/* new/" and get error mv: cannot move `./xxxxxx' to a subdirectory of itself How can I move it ? (Centos 5) thanks. ...
I am looking for a command line parser for Qt4. I did a small google search, and found this: http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=PublicationsFreeware&category=getopt however it lacks support for "--enable-foo" and "--disable-foo" switches. Besides that, it looks like a real winner. EDIT: It seems Frologic removed this. So the best opt...
I've got a script thats supposed to mimic ffmpeg on my local machine, by sending the command of to a remote machine, running it there and then returning the results. (see previous stack*overflow*** question.) #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'rubygems' require 'net/ssh' require 'net/sftp' require 'highline/import' file = ARGV[ ARGV.index(...
What command line should I write to display the memory used by process as well as the process command line and it's pid ? Something like: pid mem cmdline --- --- ------- 112 12M mysql -param1 5 -param2 12 115 15M apache -param1 44 -param2 8 ... ...
I am working in VisualStudio 2008 environment and developing a commandline application in C#.Net. The application expects a path to be passed from the commandline argument. I am passing these arguments to the to my application by setting the "Command line arguments" in the debug option of the project setting. The argument I provided is -...