I'm writing a bat script and I have to save the date from a file to a variable. How can I do that? I will use the variable to check wether the file is older than N days, so it would be nice to save the date in a format that would allow me to do such test. ...
Hello all, We need to append a line to the hosts file for every user on our network. I have admin privileges, but don't know the first thing about windows scripting. Can someone point me in the right direction on this? I don't have the list of all the machine names, so I'd prefer a script that would discover all the machines on the n...
What are the preferred platforms to implement TCP socket communication? I'm interested in: scripting languages (eg Swocket for Python) and runtimes (eg .NET / Java). ...
"awk: Function systime is not defined." but systime is a built in command ...
I need to allow several applications to append to a system variable ($PYTHONPATH in this case). I'm thinking of designating a directory where each app can add a module (e.g. .bash_profile_modulename). Tried something like this in ~/.bash_profile: find /home/mike/ -name ".bash_profile_*" | while read FILE; do source "$FILE" done; but i...
I have a Windows Server 2003 system that is used for terminal services. We do not use roaming profiles. We do not use login scripts. I have about thirty to fourty accounts that log into this system and as such have local profiles. One of the software packages that are installed onto this system uses HKCU/Software reg tree for its...
Python, Perl and PHP, all support TCP stream sockets. But exactly how do I use sockets in a script file that is run by a webserver (eg Apache), assuming I only have FTP access and not root access to the machine? When a client connects to a specific port, how does the script file get invoked? Does the script stay "running" for the durat...
Hi I want to delete a line from a file which matches particular pattern the code I am using is BEGIN { FS = "!"; stopDate = "date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S"; deletedLineCtr = 0; #diagnostics counter, unused at this time } { if( $7 < stopDate ) { deletedLineCtr++; } else ...
I have two variables: X and Y. The value of X will be a date given in the format mmddyy and I want to calculate the date preceeding that date and have it be returned in in the format yyyymmdd. Let me give you an example. When X="091509" (mmddyy format) Y should be "20090914" (yyyymmdd format) ...
I have a web server that saves the logs files of a web application numbered. A file name example for this would be: dbsclog01s001.log dbsclog01s002.log dbsclog01s003.log The last 3 digits are the counter and they can get sometime up to 100. I usually open a web browser, browse to the file like: http://someaddress.com/logs/dbsclog01s...
I have an interesting request from my client and am trying to figure out the best way to handle it - with a script preferably. They want me to have 2 sites on production. The first is the actual live website, the second is the last version (in case we need to roll back) and will be the target of the next upgrade. Once the upgrade is d...
How do I write a PHP script that continues running, even after flushing out some text and ending the HTTP request? Is this possible? ...
PHP scripts can continue executing after the HTTP page request, so how do I finally stop it executing when I'm done with it? Also, is there an event to detect when the OS is going to forcibly abort the script? or how do I keep an internal timer to predict max_execution_time? ...
Related: How to list the elements of the path in a batch file? How does FOR work? How would you write a batch file or CMD file to remove an element from the path? It should handle gracefully: differences in case shortnames and long names I've done this using tr.exe but it's slow and complicated and uses temporary files, which mak...
I'm assuming that for every page request, the webserver (eg. Apache) creates a new instance of a script in memory. Can these instances communicate with each other while running? and pass data too? ...
Hello i was wandering how i could see what variables my flash sends to my php sccript. Is that possible? Maybe an extension or something else? i don`t know if my flash is sending any variables. My problem is that i have a flash wich i can`t change and i the flash has a form. in that form the variables are sent to a php script.. we had t...
I'm backing up my Flickr pics locally using a Perl script and the Net::Flickr::Backup module. This pulls down the original picture, a thumbnail, and the associated metadata (title, tags etc) in a RDF-XML file. I'd like to extract a subset of this metadata so I can generate a "poor man's Flickr" HTML page. This should display the thumbna...
Hi It's all well and good talking about best practices and so on, but if you're anything like me there is so much to be learned from looking at great code. I regularly examine HMTL, CSS, Javascript using firebug, or when coding in C++ I can call upon any of the vast number of high quality open source projects, like boost. However, I d...
Typical PHP socket functionality is synchronous, and halts the thread when waiting for incoming connections and data. (eg. socket_read and socket_listen) How do I do the same asynchronously? so I can respond to data in a data received event, instead of polling for data, etc. ...
How to write (or overwrite) the following contents: <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>ged.eprom</groupId> <artifactId>epromx</artifactId> <version>${version.to.set}</version> <classifier>stubjava</classifier> </dependency> </dependencies> into file called pom.xml in the current directory. I have tried...