When searching code for strings, I constantly run into the problem that I get meaningless, context-less results. For example, if a function call is split across 3 lines, and I search for the name of a parameter, I get the parameter on a line by itself and not the name of the function. For example, in a file containing ... someFuncti...
My Python program does a series of things and prints some diagnostic output. I would also like to have a progress counter like this: Percentage done: 25% where the number increases "in place". If I use only string statements I can write separate numbers, but that would clutter the screen. Is there some way to achieve this, for example...
I want to open html files from a shell script. I know that Ubuntu has a command x-www-browser that will open the default browser on the system. I also found via some Googling that the command is part of the debian system. I was wondering if the command is available on non debian based distros. If it isn't is there a standard way of openi...
I have a cron script on a shared web host that occasionally gets killed. I'd like to make a loop in bash that tries again if it gets killed, because most of the time it will make it. I'm having trouble with the syntax for storing a boolean value :P #!/bin/bash VAR=0; while [ $VAR ]; do if nice -19 mysqldump -uuser -ppassword -h dat...
I want to use system commands like mkdir and remdir running a java program. How can I do that? ...
In my C# program I call an external program from command line using a process and redirecting the standard input. After I issue the command to the external program, every 3 seconds I have to issue another command to check the status - the program will respond with InProgress or Finished. I would like some help in doing this as efficient ...
We are running into an error when trying to use the MSDeploy "runCommand" provider to execute a .cmd file on a remote machine. The expected run time should be about 10 seconds, but MSDeploy only runs it for about 2-3 seconds, after which time error details are returned. Here is the complete MSDeploy "runCommand" command line text I am u...
I always have an IntelliJ running. Sometimes I want to open a file from outside IntelliJ. I can drag and drop a file to IntelliJ if am in the Finder, but if I am on the command line on OS X, how can I instruct IntelliJ to open a certain file? I am looking for something similar to the mate command provided by TextMate. ...
Hi I am learning C++ and at the very beginning used a Command-line... then I started using Xcode (and since then couldn't switch back to command line) and was just wondering some specific reasons/situations to use Command-line instead of IDE... ...
Hello I'm doing batch-testing on our win32 c++ programs. Some of them crash. What's the best way to catch those crash from the command line and report it? thanks edit: answer: 1) you can't catch another process's exception from batch / command line 2) example to do it right in c#: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/673036/how-to-ha...
I'm trying to create a file that has a list of directories that have a specific file name in them. Let's say I'm trying to find directories that have a file named *.joe in them. I initially tried just a simple dir /ad *.joe > dir_list.txt , but it searches the directory names for *.joe, so no go. Then I concluded that a for loop wa...
What I want to do is invoke maven from a groovy script. The groovy script in question is used as a maven wrapper to build J2EE projects by downloading a tag and invoking maven on what was downloaded. How should I accomplish invoking maven to build/package the EAR (the groovy script is already capable of downloading the tag from SCM). ...
I'm creating a Cocoa Application, which will need to run the rails command. This command generates an output, and streams it to stdout. I want to show this output to the user in an NSTextView (so basicly stream the stdout to the NSTextView). My application should not 'hang' when the command is running (e.g. the git command takes a long t...
I need to pass more than one command line argument via c# for a process called handle.exe: http://www.google.com.mt/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=handle.exe First, I need to run the executable file via ADMINISTRATOR permissions. This post has helped me achieve just that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/667381/programatic...
I'm running java with the -verbose:gc option to measure garbage collector behavior, but it sends the info to stdout, mixing with my program's normal output. How do I tell it to output this info to stderr? ...
I have a program running on multiple machines with NFS and I'd like to log all their outputs into a single file. Can I just run ./my_program >> filename on every machine or is there an issue with concurrency I should be aware of? Since I'm only appending, I don't think there would be a problem, but I'm just trying to make sure. ...
There is a way to install cURL in windows in order to run cURL commands from the command prompt? Thanks ...
I have a backup directory created by WDBackup (western digital external HD backup util) that contains a directory for each day that it backed up and the incremental contents of just what was backed up. So the hierarchy looks like this: 20100101 My Documents Letter1.doc My Music Best Songs Every First Songs.mp3 My...
percentage of memory used used by a process. normally prstat -J will give the memory of process image and RSS(resident set size) etc. how do i knowlist of processes with percentage of memory is used by a each process. i am working on solaris unix. addintionally ,what are the regular commands that you use for monitoring processes,perfo...
I have a bunch of text files that are encoded in ISO-8851-2 (have some polish characters). Is there a command line tool for linux/mac that I could run from a shell script to convert this to a saner utf-8? ...