Whenever glob pattern match fails, it stops the whole job. For instance, $ mv *.jpg *.png folder1 && blahblah mv: cannot stat `*.jpg': No such file or directory *.png isn't moved to folder1 and blahblah is not run. And the script below works only for the case when both .[A-z]* and * succeed. #!/bin/bash cd $1 du -sk .[A-z]* *| sort...
I'm trying to build a firewall manager in PHP, but when I execute, <?php exec('iptables -L'); ?>, the result array is empty. I have tried, <?php echo exec('whoami'); ?>, and the response is www-data (the user that Apache is using). What can I do to execute the exec function as root? (Preferably without changing the Apache user.) ...
I am coding in Eclipse (on the Mac) and need to run OS shell commands from time to time. I have a lot of bash terminal windows open and it takes time and is distracting to find the right one for the programming session. The commands are not always the same, and I need to see the output, so something like an External Builder will not do...
I have the following code which works on Windows XP and Vista - both 32 and 64 bit: public static Icon GetFolderIcon(IconSize size, FolderType folderType) { // Need to add size check, although errors generated at present! uint flags = Shell32.SHGFI_ICON | Shell32.SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES; if (FolderType.Open == folderType) ...
What's the best shell command to output the lines of a file until you encounter the first blank line? For example: output these lines but do not output anything after the above blank line (or the blank line itself) awk? something else? ...
Lets say that I have a string "5a". This is the hex representation of the ASCII letter 'Z'. I need to know a linux shell command which will take a hex string and output the binary bytes the string represents. So if I do echo "5a" | command_im_looking_for > temp.txt can I open temp.txt, I will see a solitary letter Z. ...
According to Wikipedia, the md5 sum of an empty string is d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e I confirmed this with my md5 library However, when I run echo "" | md5sum in my linux shell, I get 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 - In fact, none of my hashes match the output of the md5sum command. Any thoughts on this discrepancy? ...
I created a win32 consoleline window, and now i managed to put shell icon of it on the right buttom corner of my desktop... But now i need to add a menu to it when i right click the icon... any body can help me with this hairy thing.. Thanx very much ...
Hello Members. I have 1000 files in a directory. I'm on a solaris machine I want to replace the string " /example/test/temp " t0 " /testing/in/progress/ in all the xml files in my directory. any pointers will be great. thanks, novice ...
I have a table with two columns column_1 column_1 12345 12345 73255 73255 71377 71377 Now i want to create an xml like <header> <value>12345</value> <value>73255</value> <value>71377</value> <footer> basically i need to use a select query and put any one of the fields into the values of xml. could you please suggest h...
Basically, I am creating an XML file by taking the values from a column of a table. I am starting an AWK script from a shell script (ksh if it matters) like this: SQL_RESULT=`sqlplus -s ${CONNECT_STRING} << EOF ${SQLPLUS_SETTINGS} select customer_id from GD9_GENTH_CUST_SUBSCR; exit; EOF` FILE_LIST=`echo $SQL_RESULT|sed -e 's/\n/''/g'` ...
There is a nice feature in windows - thumbnail view. So we can see not just folder icon but also small parts of thumbnails of files in the folder. When I tried to get a thumbnail, I got the following: C#, Shell api -> native bitmaps -> wpf bitmap(i think this part is not important) ...
I have some data on a single line like below abc edf xyz rfg yeg udh I want to present the data as below abc xyz yeg edf rfg udh so that alternate fields are printed with newline separated. Are there any one liners for this? ...
I want a 64-bit python interpreter on my Mac so I had to rebuild from source. However, with my own custom build interpreter I run into issues when I try to navigate when I run the interpreter from inside a shell. Typing python into the bash shell results in the familiar: Python 2.6.3 (r263:75183, Oct 23 2009, 14:23:25) [GCC 4.2.1 (Appl...
In *nix, how do I display (cat) a file with no line-wrapping: longer lines should be cut such that they fit into screen's width. ...
hi i have pattern like below hi hello hallo greetings salutations no more hello for you i am trying to replace all new lines with tab spaces using the following command sed -e "s_/\n_/\t_g" but its not working . could nybody pls help? i need the solution in sed /awk. ...
phpMySQL use backticks ` to surround column names, and I've just see people use backticks in shell scripts. Is that the same if they use ' ? ...
Hi, Is there a way to make mercurial use less to show me the logs/diffs/whatever by default? Now mercurial just displays everything when I type 'hg log'. I suppose I can use aliases like 'hg log = less hg log' if I want to. I'm wondering if there're better solutions. ...
I am trying to use the registry settings from this page to add two menu-items to the explorer context menu in vista to register and unregister COM DLLs. But for some reason they do not work. I have checked the registry using Regedit and the keys do exist on my system. I have also tried logging on and off the system several times but stil...
How can I use shell one-liners and common GNU tools to concatenate lines in two files as in Cartesian product? What is the most succinct, beautiful and "linuxy" way? For example, if I have two files: $ cat file1 a b $ cat file2 c d e The result should be a, c a, d a, e b, c b, d b, e ...