I have few long commands that I will be using on a day to day basis. So I though it would be better to have a bash script where I could pass arguments, thus saving typing. I guess this is the norm in Linux but I am kind of new to it. Could someone show me how to do it. A example is the following command cut -f <column_number> <filename>...
what is the difference between cd and chdir command. both commands execute the same function. If both have the same function , why do we need two commands ?? ...
Hi, First of all, I do have some sort of understanding that the following might not be the generally accepted way to do things. We have a Maven 2 project that has a version number which should be updated each week or so, during a new release. During this process, I've tried to eliminate all the things one has to remember and I've made ...
Hi, I would like to execute a CMD command from my flex application programmatically. Something like > mediaplayer.exe "mySong.mp3" I also tried using fscommand but was not successful. While googling I learnt that its not supported by AIR. I would like to know if there is any other alternative for executing the commands. Thanks... ...
I have a .bat file that simply opens up two different browsers and points them to unique links. After it opens up the first browser, it waits a few seconds, then opens up the second browser. What I expect to happen is that the second browser's window will automatically be focused and active. This behavior only happens when I click on the...
I'm writing a program for a school project that is supposed to emulate the Unix shell, in a very basic form. It's basically parsing input, then doing a fork/exec. I need to be able to read arguments in the program (not as arguments passed to the program from the command line) individually. For example, I will prompt: Please enter a com...
I'm invoking TestNG from the command-line like this: java org.testng.TestNG -groups "foo" testng.xml ...with the intention of only running tests annotated with: @Test(groups = { "foo" }) ...but it's running all my tests. Do I need to change my testng.xml file? <suite name="BarSuite" verbose="1"> <test name="AllInPackage"> ...
can i bundle a file with a command-line Utility in OS X? i use Foundation framework, and hope there is a way to drag some files to project and then use them in code, like in Cocoa ...
How can I tell whether the user launched my console application by double-clicking the EXE (or a shortcut), or whether they already had a command line window open and executed my console app within that session? ...
How can we find specific type of files i.e. doc pdf files present in nested directories. command I tried: $ ls -R | grep .doc but if there is a file name like alok.doc.txt the command will display that too which is obviously not what I want. What command should I use instead? ...
Hello everyone! So my question is how can I pass a file argument to my bash script using a Terminal command in Linux? At the moment I'm trying to make a program in bash that can take a file argument from the Terminal and use it as a variable in my program. For example I run myprogram --file=/path/to/file in Terminal. My Program #!/bin...
Is there a tool/client to view inside and make queries for google appengine datastore? ...
I have been able to download google docs using something like this - google docs get --title "Shopping list" output.png or google docs get --title "Shopping list" output format=png Even though Shopping list has 2 slides, i only get the first one. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong here? ...
Previous I issued a question on how to change Maven project vesion from command line which lead me to a new issue. Previously I was able to get the version number since the version was stored as a property that was easy to grep and parse from the command line (bash). Now that the pom.xml element is used for this, it no longer is unique...
I used to have this sweet alias for du I called dusort that would print out a human-readable list of sizes for the top-level subdirectories+files sorted by size. It was like a mini-filelight for mac that runs in terminal. But now my alias is broken after I copied it to my new mac running Mac OS 10.6. Apparently the sort I used either ca...
I'm making a shell script and I want to know if it's possible to write directly to the command line when the script is executed ? Example : user@localhost:/home/user$./script.sh ... output ... another output ... another output ... last output user@localhost:/home/user$I want to write here on the command line I don't want to "echo" so...
The Command Line entry is: eraserl.exe -recycled It is needed to run "Eraser" ( http://eraser.heidi.ie/ ) in order to overwrite the Recycle Bin when no Recycle Bin Icon is available. How do I run this command from a DOS file (.bat, .cmd or .whatever)? (BTW, installing a lost Recyckle Bin is no easy trick!) Thank you ...
When running WCAT on my windows XP machine via the commandline I get the following error: error: must specify at least one of the following parameters -run, -update, -terminate, -showclients or -setclients The command I try to run is: wcat.wsf -terminate -run -t scenario.wcat -f settings.ubr -s localhost -singleip -x And is...
Hi, i need to remove a line from the MANIFEST.MF inside a jar, I tried extracting it and generating a new manifest and using jar umf to put it inside again, but it not worked and the line is still inside the jar. I do not want to rebuild the jar and neither do it manually using 7-zip, there are many files that I need to remove the exact ...
When I run $ php -l /path/to/script.php it will report whether an error occurs or not, but won't indicate the line or error type when an error does occur. Is there a better command line tool for lint checking or another way to get more error information? Thanks ...