scripting

LuaInterface - how to register overloaded methods?

Hello world! I'm trying to integrate Lua to my C# app when I hit a little snag. I was hoping someone with more expertise could help point me to the right direction. Let's say I have the following C# methods: public void MyMethod(int foo) { ... } public void MyMethod(int foo, int bar) { ... } I would like to register it to my Lua scri...

Get KDE to run a bash script.

I have a bash script that takes a file name as an arg. It works great from the command line. When I right-click a file in KDE and select "open with", then point it to my script, it doesn't run. What am I doing wrong? ...

Text replacement for multiple script/config files

I am doing some sort of science with a combination of Python, bash scripts and configuration files with weird syntaxes from old C programs. To run different tests, I have to tune (open text file, edit and save) a number of these files, but it is getting harder and harder to remember which files to edit. Also, the tasks are very repetitiv...

How to script a URL screenshot without X?

I'd like to automate a 'screenshot' of arbitary URL's using a Linux build that doesn't have X installed. There appears to be some (costly) web services to do this, but I specifically want something I can do locally. Tried imagemagick without much success, though Mozilla used to have a command line option to do it? ...

How to allow users to define financial formulas in a C# app

I need to allow my users to be able to define formulas which will calculate values based on data. For example //Example 1 return GetMonetaryAmountFromDatabase("Amount due") * 1.2; //Example 2 return GetMonetaryAmountFromDatabase("Amount due") * GetFactorFromDatabase("Discount"); I will need to allow / * + - operations, also to assign...

I'm not sure what Option explicit means?

Possible Duplicate: whats an option strict and explicit? Is it about case sensitivity? Complete noob here. ...

Changing Passwords Over Multiple Servers and Services

Hi all, I am looking to automate the changing of passwords across multiple services and servers. For example: I want to change the root paassword to all of my web servers at once. I am thinking of writing a ruby script, but have you guys run across anything already written? If so, would that also give me the ability to change other sys...

Batch Create Java Class Stubs

Given a list of potential class names: 1. Alaska . . . 50. Wyoming Is there a tool that will create empty java class files for each with supplied parameters? I'm thinking of something like the "New...Class" dialog in Eclipse, only on steriods. :-) Thanks in advance, Kyle ...

Shell script task status monitoring

I'm running an ANT task in background and checking in 60 second intervals whether that task is complete or not. If it is not, every 60 seconds, a message should be displayed on screen - "Deploy process is still running. $slept seconds since deploy started", where $slept is 60, 120, 180 n so on. There's a limit of 1200 seconds, after wh...

Birt 2.5.2 report generates empty table data when run from a cron job

I've got a shell script that runs genReport.sh in order to create a .pdf formatted report, and it works perfectly when it's run from the command line. The data source for the report is a ClearQuest database. When it's run from a CRON job the .pdf file is created, except that only the various report and column headers are displayed, and...

Why does using set -e cause my script to fail when called in crontab?

I have a bash script that performs several file operations. When any user runs this script, it executes successfully and outputs a few lines of text but when I try to cron it there are problems. It seems to run (I see an entry in cron log showing it was kicked off) but nothing happens, it doesn't output anything and doesn't do any of its...

possible to change a script when it is running?

Suppose a script has 1000 lines, and the 10 line has a command takes a long time to run and when I find it is running line 10, I find I need to change line 100, is it possible to do that without stop the script first? We can also stop a process by using command pstop, but I don't know how to let the process to re-read the script and con...

Is there any use for Bash scripting anymore?

I just finished my second year as a university CS student, so my "real-world" knowledge is lacking. I learned Java my first year, continued with Java and picked up C and simple Bash scripting my second. This summer I'm trying to learn Perl (God help me). I've dabbled with Python a bit in the past. My question is, now that we have ve...

ASP.NET MVC 2 project default script files. What do you use?

Many js files are included into Scripts folder by default in ASP.NET MVC 2 Projects. I suppose developers use jquery library nearly every time they program a site, but what about other files? Please, can you tell scenarios and reasons when you: Use Microsoft.Ajax instead of jquery or mix both libraries Use JQuery validation infrastr...

"Permission denied to access property 'href' from a non-chrome context" in JavaScript and OpenLayers

This is really two questions one leading into the other. Firstly what does 'Permission denied to access property 'href' from a non-chrome context' actually mean? Secondly I am using overlays in OpenLayers and wish to change the opacity of said layers, this is where this error is being thrown the code of which is here... <input id='opac...

What scripting language should be recommended to an experienced OOP programmer?

The programmer is a C# ASp.NET Developer and is looking to learn his first scripting language. Unfortunately he never had to use it before. He is also looking for something that can be good for his career growth. ...

The proper way to script periodically pulling a page from an https site

I want to create a command-line script for Cygwin/Bash that logs into a site, navigates to a specific page and compares it with the results of the last run. So far, I have it working with Lynx like so: ----snpipped, just setting variables---- echo "# Command logfile created by Lynx 2.8.5rel.5 (29 Oct 2005) ----snipped the recorded keyst...

How to set the printer properties programatically?

Hello, As a paper saving drive throughout the organization, we plan to set 2 page printing (back to back) as default setting on all the Windows machines. Is it possible to program this in .NET / Java (or any scripting language)? Can we change printer properties by a program? Thanks for your time. ...

awk / sed script to remove text

Hi, I am currently in need of a way to programmatically remove some text from Makefiles that I am dealing with. Now the problem is that (for whatever reason) the makefiles are being generated with link commands of -l<full_path_to_library>/<library_name> when they should be generated with -l<library_name>. So what I need is a script to f...

Managing profiles in Powershell 2.0

Hi, as far as I understand, powershell has one profile per user. I would like to prepare multiple environments for different "hats" I could put on my head. Like start my "database worker shell" which provides a set of shortcuts for working with special databases. Later I would start an environment which might be my "data processing shel...