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SQL Server 2008 Express w/Adv Services Command Line Install

I'm attempting to include an install of SQL Server 2008 Express w/Adv. Services with an installation package, but am having a heck of a time getting the installation to complete. Typically, this installation will take place on brand-new servers that get shipped to new customers, but this won't always be the case: Sometimes, the install...

Linux / Ubuntu command similar to Windows cmd "start"?

From cmd on windows, you can type "start filename" and an action will be taken based on the programs associated with the type of the file. EXEs will launch, JPEGs will have an associated file viewer opened, etc.. Is there a way to do this on Linux / Ubuntu? ...

What are good CLI tools for JSON?

General Problem Though I may be diagnosing the root cause of an event, determining how many users it affected, or distilling timing logs in order to assess the performance and throughput impact of a recent code change, my tools stay the same: grep, awk, sed, tr, uniq, sort, zcat, tail, head, join, and split. To glue them all together, U...

Developing "Command Line" in .NET?

Imagine a "search box" on the right top side of the UI Windows Application. When user types a desired action, a matching functionality is executed. Screen gets opened, or action gets performed. For example: user types "create" and intellisence offered next word options "client"/"product", user picks "client", and "Create New Client" sc...

can a python script know that another instance of the same script is running... and then talk to it?

I'd like to prevent multiple instances of the same long-running python command-line script from running at the same time, and I'd like the new instance to be able to send data to the original instance before the new instance commits suicide. How can I do this in a cross-platform way? Specifically, I'd like to enable the following behav...

Confused about GNU `sort(1)` of a numerical sub field

I wish to sort a space separated table, with the numerical value that found on the 2nd field. I can assume that the 2nd field is always fooN but the length of N is unknown: antiq. foo11 girls colleaguing foo2 Leinsdorf Cousy foo0 Montgomeryville bowlegged foo1 pollack Chevrier foo10 ill-conceived candlebomb foo3 seventieths autochthony ...

Executing Javascript without a browser?

I am looking into Javascript programming without a browser. I want to run scripts from the Linux or Mac OS X command line, much like we run any other scripting language (ruby, php, perl, python...) $ javascript my_javascript_code.js I looked into spider monkey (Mozilla) and v8 (Google), but both of these appear to be embedded. Is a...

Java execution details in System.out

As I remember there is a magic command line option in Java that turn on writing of operations that are currently executed to console. The output was looked like byte code. -verbose does not match as it prints only class loading, while this option outputs information like memory allocation, setting local variables etc. It was very detai...

Debugging php-cli scripts with xdebug and netbeans?

I have managed to initiate php-cli script debug session from the IDE itself, but I need to start the debugging session from the shell / command line. These are rather complex maintenance PHP scripts which take a lot of input parameters, so entering arguments from within Netbeans is a bit cumbersome. I have done it before with Zend studi...

interactive lua: command line arguments

I wish to do lua prog.lua arg1 arg2 from the command line Inside prog.lua, I want to say, for instance print (arg1, arg2, '\n') Lua doesn't seem to have argv[1] etc and the methods I've seen for dealing with command line arguments seem to be immature and / or cumbersome. Am I missing something? ...

Execute script with Ruby on Rails?

I want to start my daemon with my application. In the command line, I can write something like lib/daemons/mydaemon_ctl start to start up my daemon, but I have to do this manually. I want the daemon to start when I start my server (i.e. when the initializer files are loaded). Is there a ruby command for executing a command line? Someth...

python,running command line servers - they're not listening properly

hello all Im attempting to start a server app (in erlang, opens ports and listens for http requests) via the command line using pexpect (or even directly using subprocess.Popen()). the app starts fine, logs (via pexpect) to the screen fine, I can interact with it as well via command line... the issue is that the servers wont listen fo...

Globbing with MinGW on Windows

I have an application built with the MinGW C++ compiler that works something like grep - acommand looks something like this: myapp -e '.*' *.txt where the thing that comes after the -e switch is a regex, and the thing after that is file name pattern. It seems that MinGW automatically expands (globs in UNIX terms) the command line so ...

execute a string of PHP code on the command line

I'd like to be able to run a line of PHP code on the command line similar to how the following options work: :~> perl -e "print 'hi';" :~> python -c "print 'hi'" :~> ruby -e "puts 'hi'" I'd like to be able to do: :~> php "echo 'hi';" I've read that there is a -r option that can do what I need for php, however it doesn't appear to b...

How to pass filename to StandardInput (Process) in C#?

Hello Guys! I'm using the native windows application spamc.exe (SpamAssassin - sawin32) from command line as follows: C:\SpamAssassin\spamc.exe -R < C:\email.eml Now I'd like to call this process from C#: Process p = new Process(); p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true; p.StartInfo.RedirectSta...

Run sql script from console and not from query analyzer in SQL server

I have written an sql script for updating a database that runs in SQL server 2005. I want to make those changes to the production DB server but I dont want to run the query from the query analyzer. Is there a way to run the sql script from a console? ...

Why does OS X java always report 1.6?

Anyone run into this? I realize that 1.6 is the default on OS X, but I'm trying to compile/run a program on the command-line using 1.5. However, no matter what I try, it reports 1.6. /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/bin/java -version java version "1.6.0_20" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b...

How to make my running .NET application be able to receive commands while it is running?

How can I make my already running C# Windows Form Application be able to receive commands from the command line while it is already running? For example: if my application is playing a video now then I want to be able to type on the command line "MyApp /stop" so that while the application is still running it stops the playing the video ...

Windows environment variables change when opening command line?

Sometimes when I change my environment variables in Windows, and then use software the depends on those variables, they are not properly updated. And good example is to change a variable, then open up Windows Command Line and echo the variable and see that it hasn't been changed, even though you properly changed it in the Environment Va...

What is the maximum length of a Window's command-line (cmd.exe) command?

There are many people asking questions on SO about how to get around the cmd.exe command maximum length. I was wondering what actually is the Windows command-line length limit? Is it different between version of Windows? Does using a 32-bit vs. a 64-bit version affect this limitation? ...