command-line

How to send argument securely using Process class?

Hello, I'm using System.Diagnostics.Process to execute an svn command from a windows console application. This is the configuration of the process: svn.StartInfo.FileName = svnPath; svn.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format("copy {0}/trunk/ {0}/tags/{1} -r head -q --username {3} --password {4} -m \"{2}\"", basePathToRepo, tagName, messag...

Command line semaphore utility

I want to write a command line utility that can be used to synchronize the execution off programs in different consoles. Console A: $ first_program && semaphore -signal Console B: $ semaphore -wait && second_program The first program takes a long take to complete. The second program can only start when the first program has finished...

CSS Parser - Insert mtimes

What command line tool can I use to automatically insert mtimes into urls in my css files for the purposes of breaking the cache? /* before */ .example { background: url(example.jpg); } /* after */ .example { background: url(example.jpg?1271298451); } Also, I would like this tool to spit out the latest mtime as the css files mtime. (...

piping findstr's output

Windows command line, I want to search a file for all rows starting with: # NNN "<file>.inc" where NNN is a number and <file> any string. I want to use findstr, because I cannot require that the users of the script install ack. Here is the expression I came up with: >findstr /r /c:"^# [0-9][0-9]* \"[a-zA-Z0-9_]*.inc" all_pre.txt ...

Creating a simple command line interface (CLI) using a python server (TCP sock) and few scripts

I have a Linux box and I want to be able to telnet into it (port 77557) and run few required commands without having to access to the whole Linux box. So, I have a server listening on that port, and echos the entered command on the screen. (for now) Telnet 192.168.1.100 77557 Trying 192.168.1.100... Connected to 192.168.1....

What steps shall I take before building a command line application using C#

I want to develop a command line tool. I didn't build one before, but I used a few, (like mercurial). What steps do I need to take to know how to do that? So what is the problem: Regular console application need to be invoked from the command line only from it's directory. Like: C:\Projects\CommanLineProject\MyProjectConsole.exe. I wan...

How to make shell output redirect (>) write while script is still running?

I wrote a short script that never terminates. This script continuously generates output that I have to check on every now and then. I'm running it on a lab computer through SSH, and redirecting the output to a file in my public_html folder on that machine. python script.py > ~/public_html/results.txt However, the results don't show up...

run program multiple times using one line shell command

I have the following gifs on my linux system: $ find . -name *.gif ./gifs/02.gif17.gif ./gifs/fit_logo_en.gif ./gifs/halloween_eyes_63.gif ./gifs/importing-pcs.gif ./gifs/portal.gif ./gifs/Sunflower_as_gif_small.gif ./gifs/weird.gif ./gifs2/00p5dr69.gif ./gifs2/iss013e48788.gif ...and so on What I have written is a program that conver...

Does deleting 'M'odified line in SVN Commit have an effect

When running the commandsvn ci you get a text editor that allows you to place a comment, below that is there is the text "--This line, and those below, will be ignored--", then the files modified, added, or deleted. If I were to delete a line such as: M folderA/fileA Would it remove that file from the check in, or is that just an SVN ...

Different function returns from command line and within function

Hello: I have an extremely bizzare situation: I have a function in MATLAB which calls three other main functions and produces two figures for me. The function reads in an input jpeg image, crops it, segments it using kmeans clustering, and outputs 2 figures to the screen - the original image and the clustered image with the cluster cent...

is the code given in description is executable in Windows system?

is the code given is executable in Windows system? as it seems to be Linux commands echo 'create database foo2' | mysql -uroot mysqldump --skip-triggers -uroot foo | mysql -uroot foo2 EDITED I am executing the following code but I am not getting what I expect.. <?php mysql_connect('localhost','root','********'); echo 'c...

String replacement in batch file

We can replace strings in a batch file using the following command set str="jump over the chair" set str=%str:chair=table% These lines work fine and change the string "jump over the chair" to "jump over the table". Now I want to replace the word "chair" in the string with some variable and I don't know how to do it. set word=table se...

How to use Data Pump (expdp and impdp) commands from Oracle without tnsnames.ora file

I want to be able to run expdp and impdp onto a machine by directly specifying the connection parameters instead of a tns name that resides in tnsnames.ora. Is this possible? ...

Perl: print back to beginning of line

Okay, so what I'm trying to do is print out a percentage complete to my command line, now, I would like this to simply 'update' the number shown on the screen. So somehow go back to the beginning of the line and change it. For example the windows relog.exe command-line utility (which can convert a .blg file to a .csv file) does this. If...

Visual Studio. Publish project from command line

Is there a way to publish a web project in MS Visual Studio 2010 using CLI? I use DevEnv.exe /Build to build a project and it works fine, but I could not find option to Publish a project. One other thing I want to mention. I am trying to publish web project NOT to the IIS directly. I have a location where I publish several projects and...

How do I use macros for the command line arguments for debugging a .NET project?

In the Visual Studio Debug property page (for a .NET 4 project) I want to be able to specify macros, e.g. $(OutDir), like I can in the Build Events. But it doesn't work, the macros aren't replaced. Is it just not supported? Is there a work around? ...

How to extract nested tar.gz files easily?

Hi, I need to extract tar.gz a file. It's about 950mb. It has another 23 tar.gz files in it. Each of those 23 tar.gz files has one tar file in them. My questions is how I can easily extract all of them? Is there a commandline tool that I can use? The structure is like the following: foo.tar.gz ├───bar1.tar.gz │ ├───foobar1.tar ├─...

c# run CL exe or batch cpture output LIVE to textbox ?

hello, is it possible to run any Command Line based program or batch file and capturer (re-direct) the out put to a text box LIVE the CL takes time and it produce text! something like tracert.exe (it takes time and produce good amount of text). actually I will work with tracert.exe and I like to capture the output live and show it in...

How do you configure IIS5 advanced settings from command line?

I am trying to automate some of the build process for my asp.net apps by creating the virtual directories it needs and setting all their settings in a batch file. So far I have been able to figure out how to create virtual directories, but how to do you configure them beyond that? For example I need to be able to set them as an applicat...

ImageMagick - how to enforce min/max heights/widths?

Using ImageMagick, how can I resize an image to have a minimum: height of 150px width of 200px and also have a maximum: height of 225px width of 275px UPDATE: In case it helps, here's a further explanation of what I'm experiencing. I have a buch of images with all different ratio dimensions. Some images have 1:5 height/width ra...