scripting

Regexp in bash for number between "quotes"

Input: hello world "22" bye world I need a regex that will work in bash that can get me the numbers between the quotes. The regex should match 22. Thanks! ...

echo -e acts differently when run in a script by root on ubuntu

When running a bash script on ubuntu 9.10, I get different behavior from bash echo's "-e" option depending on whether or not I'm running as root. Consider this script: $ cat echo-test if [ "`whoami`" = "root" ]; then echo "Running as root" fi echo Testing /bin/echo -e /bin/echo -e "foo\nbar" echo Testing bash echo -e echo -e "foo\nb...

How to keep PayPal variables secure

I'm trying to link my 3rd party shopping cart to PayPal, and in the process I'm finding that my variables are extremely exposed, such that, if someone uses, say, Firebug, to manipulate the values of my variables, they can change the cost of the items in the transaction. I'm very new to online carts and shopping, so my question is how do...

How can I create an automatic svn tagging script?

I want to create a simple script that tags the latest revision to the tags folder, for example: for Trunk directory head revision 114, it will create a tag of this directory to the Tags directory which goes by the name "r114". I don't really care of what scripting language it'll use (as long as it runs on windows). I tried creating su...

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...

specify parent window in Windows Resource Script file(*.rc)

Hi, I'm looking for a method to specify parent window in *.rc file. In *.rc file, it contains the layout and controls of a dialog. Any new control added into it, will automatically become a child window of Dialog itself. But I want to add a custom draw window into dialog, and some other controls which has that "custom draw window" as ...

scripts on Cshell

hello, I've got some problem, I have list of data in the file: 053-37878 03828008 Moskovitch James 500 052-34363 01234567 Mendelson Kippi 450 053-32322 03828008 Jameson Shula 350 054-39238 03333333 Merden Moshe 300 is it possible rewrite this list in the same file (without using temporary file) but without last number thanks in advanc...

piping to variables

cut -d" " -f2 ${2} | $callsTo hello, can somebody please explain can I pipe the result of cut to variable callsTo, and how will it be stored, as the string or list? ...

errors on shell

somebody knows what does this error mean? Usage: tcsh [ -bcdefilmnqstvVxX ] [ argument ... ]. I receive this error after I enter in my script this row #! /bin/tcsh -f ...

how to read rows?

I'm trying to read first row from the file > source ./rank file using this script set line = ($<) <- inside rank but when I enter echo $line I receive nothing, how can I change it? thanks in advance ...

strange behavior

I wrote simple script test echo hello #<-- inside test if I press one time enter after hello, my script will run, if I don't press - it will not, if two times I'll receive my hello and + command was not found, can somebody please explain me this behavior thanks in advance This is not a part of the code, this is actual code and I r...

unknown error in shell

can somebody explain me what does this error mean: > ./rank lines.in 'nknown option: `- Usage: tcsh [ -bcdefilmnqstvVxX ] [ argument ... ]. this is my script rank: #! /bin/tcsh -f set line = `cat ${1}` echo $line I think that the problem I have is with first row #! /bin/tcsh -f I'm working on Windows! but after I wrote script on ...

Is there a program that reorganizes .cc method definitions to be ordered according to .h declarations?

Is there a program that reorganizes .cc method definitions to be ordered according to .h declarations? ...

Selecting records with N fields from a file

can somebody help me, how can I filter my file, inside the file I have rows with 3, 4, 5 elements, I want print using echo only these which have 5 elements, thanks in advance (I'm talkin about scripts) ...

PHP upload script

Using this upload script and it was working ok a week ago but when i checked it today it fails. I have checked writ privileges on the folder and it is set to 777 so don't think that is the problem. Anyone have a idea of what the problem can be? this is the error Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to ac...

transferring via pipeline

I need to transfer data via pipe and also transfer file with this data, can I do something like this inside the script? cat ${1} | ./helper ${1} and what is the difference if I write cat ${1} | ./helper < ${1} ...

Enable access for assistive device programmatically

Hi All, I want to enable Access for assistive devices in System Preferences programmatically. But Problem is that my application is not running as root user and i do not want my application to be as root user and also should not ask for any authentication in between. I want to tap all keyboard events globally. I am using CGEventTap...

grep a specific word and sum it

I want to grep an environment variable env | grep ABC_IJK[1,2] currenlty defined variables are like this ABC_IJK1=123 ABC_IJK1_XYZ=sn123:345 ABC_IJK2=999 ABC_IJK2_XYZ=sn321:999 I only want to get only this ABC_IJK1=123 ABC_IJK2=999 get number of connections sum them(not 123 + 999) and save in N1 (this one has 2 connection) ...

problem with script

I'm workin on C-Shell, can somebody help me find the bug, my script: #! /bin/tcsh -f cut -d" " -f2 ${1} | ./rankHelper script rankHelper: #! /bin/tcsh -f set line = ($<) while(${#line} != 0) cat $line set line = ($<) end file lines from which the data was sent: 053-3787837 038280083 052-3436363 012345678 053-3232287 038280083 05...

How to declare and use boolean variables in shell script?

Title. The way I tried declaring a boolean variable is by: variable=$false variable=$true Is the syntax correct? Also, if I wanted to update that variable would I just do the same format? Finally, is the following the proper syntax for using boolean variables as expressions: if [ $variable ] if [ !$variable ] Thanks! Any help is...