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Is there a way to get the progress of a file transfer using move function in a Perl script?

I am an ETL developer and I deal with a lot of data that needs to be processed from one form to the other before it can be loaded into tables. Therefore, most of the scripts that I work with, at some point, have to move a file from one place to the other. We are a windows shop. I was wondering if there was a way to see how much time a mo...

SQL Server command line backup statement

Does any one know if there is a way to script out SQL Server backup in to a batch file, so that it could be executed from a command line? ...

size of remote file is not known of the fetch run time

When I carried out a fetch command, the following messages were output. "size of remote file is not known" Will this be an error? Will it be what or the thing which disappears if I appoint an option? Or will it be all right even if I do not mind it? If there is a detailed person, please teach it ...

Dragging files to an .exe sets different working directory

Hi! If I have a regular console application (or any other application for that matter) and drag a file onto the .exe file using windows explorer (in order to use the file as "command-line-input"), the current directory is set to some other directory (my home folder?), rather than the directory where the application is located. If I star...

compiling actionscript from command line using MXMLC

I have a tiny actionscript "project" consisting of two files, call them foo.as and bar.as. For reasons I won't go into, I really really want to build the .SWF from the command line, without setting up a formal project of any kind. Every compiler I've ever used lets you do this, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to coerce MXML...

Perl Getopt::Long Related Question - Mutually Exclusive Command-Line Arguments

Hi, I have the following code in my perl script: my $directory; my @files; my $help; my $man; my $verbose; undef $directory; undef @files; undef $help; undef $man; undef $verbose; GetOptions( "dir=s" => \$directory, # optional variable with default value (false) "files=s" => \@files, # optional variable t...

How to get a form from MainWindowHandle?

I have a program that only allows one instance of itself to run. I use this code bool createdNew = true; using(Mutex mutex = new Mutex(true, "MobilePOSServer", out createdNew)) { if(createdNew) { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false); Application.Run(new ...

find -exec cmd {} + vs | xargs

Which one is more efficient over a very large set of files and should be used? find . -exec cmd {} + or find . | xargs cmd (Assume that there are no funny characters in the filenames) ...

C# Command-Line Parsing of Quoted Paths and Avoiding Escape Characters

How is it possible to parse command-line arguments that are to be interpreted as paths? args[] contains strings that are automatically joined if they are quoted, e.g.: example.exe one two "three four" args[0] = one args[1] = two args[2] = three four However, args[] will not property parse "C:\Example\" as an argument. Rather, it w...

Recursive file copy and rename on the Vista command line

I'm trying to recurse through my music directory and copy every file called folder.jpg to a file in the same directory called cover.jpg. I've tried variations of suggestions in this question such as this: for /r %i in (folder.jpg) do copy %i cover.jpg Resulting in "The system cannot find the file specified." How can solve this probl...

Odd Behaviour in Removing .git

I tried to remove my Git-files: rm -R .git | yes My CPU becomes loud, and no file is removed. I cannot understand what is going on. How can I remove my .git-files? ...

Tail multiple files in CentOS

I want to tail multiple files (and follow them) in CentOS, I've tried this: tail -f file1 file2 file3 but the output is very unfriendly I've also had a look at multitail but can't find a CentOS version. What other choices do I have? ...

Making batch file for copying.

Can anyone advise me please im using Windows XP Pro on C drive and need to be able to copy a file from one drive to another. This case original will have to be renamed and old file must be put on another Partiton which is on a Server Example K drive. Alternately There is another option using Windows 7 on a another computer instead of W...

How can I pass arguments from one Perl script to another?

Heya, I have a script which I run and after it's run it has some information that I need to pass to the next script to run. The Unix/DOS commands are like so: perl -x -s param_send.pl perl -x -s param_receive.pl param_send.pl is: # Send param my $send_var = "This is a variable in param_send.pl...\n"; $ARGV[0] = $send_var; print "Ar...

How can I run the Delphi XML schema binding generator from the command line?

For build automation, I would like to invoke the XML Data Binding Wizard in Delphi from a build script. I have found the WSDLImp.exe, but this tool seems to generate WSDL based Delphi code only. Is the XML schema binding wizard (which generates Delphi code for XSD files) available as a command line tool? ...

Inconsistent Video Conversion

I have a script calling a command to run an ffmpeg conversion on an uploaded video. It works only at random times however. Sometimes the form will finish submitting and the ffmpeg process will be running; at other times, the ffmpeg command fails to run at all. Here is the command that I'm running in an exec() function: ffmpeg -i "uploa...

what is the sleakest way to proccess multiple files

I am trying to start a program by dragging multiple files on to the .exe and then have the exe send the files to diffrent folders based on rules and logic in the program itself. the problem i am running into is that i do this via a console application there is a limitation on how much information can be sent to the exe at a time. On...

Execute a Groovy class in a package from the command line

Is there a way to execute a Groovy class by specifying the package with dots, as with java? Example: File ./my/package/MyClass.groovy: package my.package class MyClass { static void main(String[] args) { println "ok" } } > cd my/package my/package> groovy MyClass ok > cd ../.. > groovy my/package/MyClass.groovy ok > groovy ...

How do I run Command line commands from code

I need to do 2 things: run a batch file (works fine), and run a command (does not work). The method for the command throws the exception 'file not found'. If I open a cmd window, and type the command, it works perfectly. private static void Rescan() { //System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi = new System.Diagnostics.Proce...

What program can help a REPL shell remember and search history?

I'm playing with Paul Graham's arc, and it's getting really annoying that the up arrow inserts ^[[A instead of the previous command, and ^R doesn't work as in shell. I vaguely remember there being a simple way to run Arc's REPL in a program which will remember the input history - does anyone know what it is? ...