Hi, I am working with Cognos8 Report Studio. In my report there are two date prompts, (1) START date, (2) END date. Users can select two different dates or two same dates. But the report has valid data only for last business date of each month. For example, if Jan 31 is Sunday, valid data is available only for Jan 29 which is Friday(las...
What are some elements in your favorite bash prompt? I like to have an indicator of the success of the most recent command, like so (in .bashrc): function exitstatus { EXITSTATUS="$?" BOLD="\[\033[1m\]" RED="\[\033[1;31m\]" GREEN="\[\e[32;1m\]" BLUE="\[\e[34;1m\]" OFF="\[\033[m\]" PROMPT="[\u@\h ${BLUE}...
for e.g from command prompt I need to launch the exe with some switch flags under debugger. How do I do it? This is an exe from c/c++ and built using VS2005 environment that I need debug. I pass some flags to this exe to perform some stuff. ...
I have a requirement to implement an "Unsaved Changes" prompt in an ASP .Net application. If a user modifies controls on a web form, and attempts to navigate away before saving, a prompt should appear warning them that they have unsaved changes, and give them the option to cancel and stay on the current page. The prompt should not disp...
Hi all! I've started to "play around" with PowerShell and am trying to get it to "behave". One of the things I'd like to do is to customize the PROMPT to be "similar" to what "$M$P$_$+$G" do on MS-Dos: A quick rundown of what these do: Character| Description $m The remote name associated with the current drive letter or the empty s...
Is there any way so that i can echo password when asked for in unix shell without use of external binaries ? Something like simple function triggered when password prompt is displayed ...
I like to know if there is a way to read the user input inside a batch file, because i have a file named: "fif.bat" that recives two parameters (just call them paramA and paramB) so i execute the file like this: fif paramA paramB I have to change paramA every month, but i call this file lot of times so i like to open a console and hav...
I'd like to have a blank line after my bash prompt and before the output on my Mac. It should look like this would: echo; ls Can I add a newline to my bash prompt and then go back up one line to wait for user input? Is there something obvious I'm missing? ...
I mainly use the MySQL GUI tools. This allows me to easily see the results in a table as well as to quick edits and bookmark frequently run queries. This suits my needs far better than the command line. I remember when I used to do this on Oracle DBs years ago I could put variables in the query itself, so that when running the query I g...
I want to write a simple chat-client in Ruby for the terminal. The Problem is, that I need two separate "windows", one for the chatlog and another for the input prompt. I dont have a clue how to do this. I watched (n)curses and some other ruby-libs, but nothing gives me this functionality. .------------------------------. | Mike: Hi Je...
I've built a number of work-specific helper functions that could be useful for other members of my teambut I've written them all in Emacs' Elisp. And getting them to convert from Notepad++ is NOT going to happen. So, I'm thinking convert the functions to Perl. No problem. Except I use ido-completion all the time to limit responses: ...
Hello, I have a PHP IRC Robot that I use in my channel and I need it to make OPs to specific set users in the script by me. Anyways I want the robot to check if the user is logged into NickServ to prevent any sort of fraud or anything. Anyways, here is my connect and DO things code, followed by what I really need help with below it. All...
This is a crude korn shell script that someone else wrote. I don't know much about using shell syntax and I'm not even sure if this is possible. Is there any way for me to run this file and be prompted for the date so that I don't have to manually go into the script and change it each time? For example, I wan to replace the "1/12/09" ...
I have a program that changes my desktop wallpaper by dragging the picture file onto it. I also have a wireless network program that can auto open programs everytime it connects to a certain network. I want to change my desktop everytime it connects to a certain network, but running the wallpaper program doesn't do anything unless I dr...
I am having an issue with the Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe command line options that I'm hoping someone has run across and can assist me with. I have the following line in a DOS batch file. "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\ss.exe" GET "$/Development Projects/Activity" -GL"C:\Compile\Activity" -R -Q -Yname,passwor...
I'm rolling my own version of prompt() for aesthetic purposes; it's come along quite nicely as far as visuals go, but I have run into a slight hitch: the native version of the function causes code execution to cease completely until the prompt has been dealt with. This is positively lovely and it's why the below works the way it does: ...
I have an expect script that connects to a few routers through ssh. All these routers have the same password (I know, it's wrong), and the script needs to know that password in order to be able to connect to the routers. Currently, the password is passed to my script as an argument on the command line, but this means that there's a tra...
To recognize better the start and the end of output on a commandline, I want to change the color of my prompt, so that it is visibly different from the programs output. As I use zsh, can anyone give me a hint? ...
I admit that I use a somewhat long-winded bash prompt: --(username)-(Wed April 01|12:00:00)--(~ $ Recently, I got the bright idea to change it so that depending on the exit value from the previous command, if success, the interior elements of the ()'s would be green, and if failure, they would be red. I got it working for the most par...
As suggested here, latexmk is a handy way to continually compile your document whenever the source changes. But often when you're working on a document you'll end up with errors and then latex will panic and wait for user input before continuing. That can get very annoying, especially recently when I hacked up something to compile late...