scripting

Save path to specific folder in shell script

I am working on a Bash shell script that does something like this: #!/bin/bash folder=/mnt mkdir $folder/folder-`date +%N` var1= Now i need to somehow get the full path for the newly created folder into var1. There is going to be created a lot of folders in /mnt so i need to be 100% sure that the path in var1 is pointing to precise...

Is it possible to extract a script from an MySQL database to create a copy of the tables on another MySQL database?

Is it possible to extract a script from an MySQL database to create a copy of the tables on another MySQL database which is located on a remote server? ...

How to make a batch file edit a text file

I got the code Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strFile = "C:\test\file.txt" Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile) Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream strLine = objFile.ReadLine If InStr(strLine,"ex3")> 0 Then strLine = Replace(strLine,"ex3","ex5") End If WScript.Echo strLine Loop The str...

how to append an empty line in text file using command line ?

how to append an empty line in text file using command line echo hi >a.txt echo >>a.txt echo arun >>a.txt here the out put comes as hi echo on arun so how could i append a empty line ..i want it to be like . hi arun when i added this line on code @echo off it said echo off .how can it be done ...

Is it possible to get the exit code from a subshell?

Let's imagine I have a bash script, where I call this: bash -c "some_command" do something with code of some_command here Is it possible to obtain the code of some_command? I'm not executing some_command directly in the shell running the script because I don't want to alter it's environment. ...

Random number from a range in a Bash Script

Hi, I need to generate a random port number between 2000-65000 from a shell script. The problem is $RANDOM is only a 16bit number, so im stuck! PORT=$(($RANDOM%63000+2001)) would work nicely if it wasn't for the size limitation. Does anyone have an example of how I can do this, maybe by extracting something from /dev/urandom and getti...

How to find missing alpha values in sets of data within same table in SQL

I have a table of many values where one column has the WO Number, and another column has the Resource ID. I need to be able to find all the WO numbers that do not have a resource value of "RW". Here is an example of the typical information. I need to be able to know that work order 5678 does not have an "RW" Resource ID. WO Number - ...

Checking if parsed date is within a date range

So I am using a scripting language with c++-like syntax, and I am trying to think of the best way to check if a date is within range. The problem I am running into is that if the current day is in a new month, the check is failing. Here is what my code looks like: if(iMonth >= iStartMonth && iMonth <= iEndMonth) { if(iDay >= iStart...

Auto SSH and execute script

I have roughly 12 computers that each have the same script on them. This script merely pings all the other machines, and prints out whether the machine is "reachable" or "unreachable". However, it is inefficient to login to each machine manually using ssh to execute this script. Suppose I'm logged into node 1. Is there any way to for m...

Add/remove xml tags using a bash script.

I have an xml file that I want to configure using a bash script. For example if I had this xml: <a> <b> <bb> <yyy> Bla </yyy> </bb> </b> <c> <cc> Something </cc> </c> <d> bla </d> </a> (confidential info removed) I would like to write a bash script that will rem...

Accessing frame info in gdb

In gdb, is there a way to access the contents of info frame in a script? I'm debugging a problem somewhere between Apache, PHP, APC and my own code, and I have about a hundred cores to choose from. Following the instructions here http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php I end up with a stacktrace like: #0 0x0121a31a in do_b...

How do I get a Mac ".command" file to automatically quit after running a shell script?

In my shell script, my last lines are: ... echo "$l" done done exit I have Terminal preference set to "When the shell exits: Close the window". In all other cases, when I type "exit" or "logout", in Terminal, the window closes, but for this ".command" file (I can double-click on my shell script file, and the script runs), instead of...

Wire the homepage so that it fires off a Push notification message to my iPhone every time someone lands on the page

I looking for a simple way to wire the homepage of my website so that it fires off a Push notification message to my iPhone every time someone lands on the page (just visiting in their browser). I'm aware this could become annoying! I currently send regular notifications to my iPhone using cron and curl to check sites / RSS feeds for ch...

VBScript and JScript seem to handle element.click method in a different manner. Why?

Hi, guys. Here's another sample script in VBScript. It opens internet explorer, navigates to google, sets up a search field and submits a query. set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") ie.navigate("www.google.com") ie.visible = true while ie.readystate <> 4 wscript.sleep 100 WEnd set fields = ie.document.getelemen...

How to export WAS 6.1 server Configuration

Is there a way in which I can export my server settings from WAS (running under RAD 6) such that other developers will be able to use the same script to set up their environment? ...

What are the reasons to use dos batch programs in Windows?

Question What would be a good (ideally, technical) reason to ever program some non-trivial task in dos batch language on a modern Windows system as opposed to downloading either PowerShell, or ActiveState Perl? To be more specific, I make the following two assumptions for the duration of this question: anyone technical enough to be a...

Conflict between two Javascripts (MailChimp validation etc. scripts & jQuery hSlides.js)

I have two scripts running on the same page, one is the jQuery.hSlides.js script http://www.jesuscarrera.info/demos/hslides/ and the other is a custom script that is used for MailChimp list signup integration. The hSlides panel can be seen in effect here: http://theatricalbellydance.com. I've turned off the MailChimp script because it ...

Is there an API for calling system scripts/programs?

Hi, is there something like API built atop the standard ProcessBuilder for calling system programs? I won't argue that scripts can be ported to Java but utilities like arping and netstat are good-to-go in Linux. ...

Eclipse script for commit on close?

Hi, I was wondering how to create a Eclipse script (Eclipsemonkey) to commit the current project on closing of Eclipse? You can listen to commands such as "org.eclipse.ui.file.save" (on file save) etc. but what's the command for editor closing? And how can you call a commit action? ...

Executing remote script - Architecture

Hi, I want to make an application that executes a remote script. The user can create a script (probabily a LUA script) then stores it in the server. Then he can uses an API for execute the script. I was thinking that API could be a webservice. So my questions are: I need high performance to execute the script. So my first choice was LU...