I'd like to write a script/batch that will bunch up my daily IIS logs and zip them up by month. ex080801.log which is in the format of ex*yymmdd*.log ex080801.log - ex080831.log gets zipped up and the log files deleted. The reason we do this is because on a heavy site a log file for one day could be 500mb to 1gb so we zip them up whic...
I have a few lines of PowerShell code that I would like to use as an automated script. The way I would like it to be able to work is to be able to call it using one of the following options: One command line that opens PowerShell, executes script and closes PowerShell (this would be used for a global build-routine) A file that I can do...
Is the ZIP compression that is built into Windows XP/Vista/2003/2008 able to be scripted at all? What executable would I have to call from a BAT/CMD file? or is it possible to do it with VBScript? I realize that this is possible using WinZip, 7-Zip and other external applications, but I'm looking for something that requires no external ...
Does anyone have a script or can anyone point me in the right direction to query an Exchange (2003) public folder tree to determine all the forms being used ? I need an output of form object/display name and count for each form type in each folder. ...
It seems like the generation of SQL scripts from the SQL Server Management Studio is terribly slow. I think that the old Enterprise Manager could run laps around the newer script generation tool. I've seen a few posts here and there with other folks complaining about the speed, but I haven't seen much offered in the way of alternatives. ...
I want to know what are the options to do some scripting jobs in windows platform. I need functionality like file manipulations, registry editing etc. Can files be edited using scripting tools? What other functionality does windows scripting tools offer? Can everything that can be done using the Windows GUI be done using a scripting lang...
For scripting languages, what is the most effective way to utilize a console when developing? Are there ways to be more productive with a console than a "compile and run" only language? Added clarification: I am thinking more along the lines of Ruby, Python, Boo, etc. Languages that are used for full blown apps, but also have a way to r...
I played with one of the early beta's of Powershell V1, but haven't used it since it went "gold". What is the best way to get started using Powershell? Which version of Powershell should I be using (V1.0 vs 2.0 CTP's)? What are you using Powershell for? Are there any tools that make using Powershell easier (i.e. development environments)...
I'm writing a php script that involves scraping web pages. Currently, the script analyzes the page line by line, but it breaks if there is a tag that spans multiple lines, like <img src="example.jpg" alt="example"> If worse comes to worse, I could possibly preprocess the page by removing all line breaks, then re-inserting them at the...
I want to escape a DOS filename so I can use it with sed. I have a DOS batch file something like this: set FILENAME=%~f1 sed 's/Some Pattern/%FILENAME%/' inputfile (Note: %~f1 - expands %1 to a Fully qualified path name - C:\utils\MyFile.txt) I found that the backslashes in %FILENAME% are just escaping the next letter. How can I do...
I have created a database model in Visio Professional (2003). I know that the Enterprise version has the ability to create a DB in Sql Server based on the data in Visio. I do not have the option to install Enterprise. Aside from going through the entire thing one table and relationship at a time and creating the whole database from scrat...
I'm looking for some software that allows me to control a server based application, that is, there are bunch of interdependent processes that I'd like to be able to start up, shut down and monitor in a controller manner. I've come across programs like Autosys, but that's expensive and very much over the top for what I want. I've also se...
I write tools that are used in a shared workspace. Since there are multiple OS's working in this space, we generally use Python and standardize the version that is installed across machines. However, if I wanted to write some things in C, I was wondering if maybe I could have the application wrapped in a Python script, that detected the ...
I'd like to create a script that will configure the Visual Studio IDE the way I like it. Nothing vastly complicated, just a few Tools/Options settings, adding some External Tools, that kind of thing. I know that this can be done inside VS with Import/Export Settings, but I'd like to be able to automate it from outside of VS. Is this po...
I'm trying to use Groovy to create an interactive scripting / macro mode for my application. The application is OSGi and much of the information the scripts may need is not know up front. I figured I could use GroovyShell and call eval() multiple times continually appending to the namespace as OSGi bundles are loaded. GroovyShell maintai...
I have a user script that would be much more useful if it could dynamically change some of its execution dependent on what the user wanted. Passing simple switches would easily solve this problem but I don't see any way to do it. I also tried embedding a keyword in the script name, but Xcode copies the script to a guid-looking filename...
Hi betatester-fellows :) ! I'm currently looking for a recommendable book about psh which seems to be very a feature rich new shell. Therefore I'm looking for some kind of pragmatic documentation, aiming a little deeper. I'm using Unix Shells like zsh since ages, but Scripting on MS was never very effective. Until now. I'm interested in...
I'm running some JMeter tests against a Java process to determine how responsive a web application is under load (500+ users). JMeter will give the response time for each web request, and I've written a script to ping the Tomcat Manager every X seconds which will get me the current size of the JVM heap. I'd like to collect stats on the ...
I have scripts calling other script files but I need to get the filepath of the file that is currently running within the process. For example, let's say I have three files. Using 'execfile', script_1.py calls script_2.py. In turn, script_2.py calls script_3.py. How can I get the file name and path of script_3.py *from code within scrip...
I am writing a DDL script to drop a number of tables but need to identify all dependencies for those tables first. Those dependencies include foreign key constraints, stored procedures, views, etc. Preferably, I want to programmatically script out dropping those dependencies using the system tables/views before dropping the dependent tab...