I have a number of modules in CVS with different tags. How would I go about getting the name of the branch these tagged files exist on? I've tried checking out a file from the module using cvs co -r TAG and then doing cvs log but it appears to give me a list of all of the branches that the file exists on, rather than just a single branch...
'man uniq' documents the -f=N and -s=N options which make uniq skip the first N fields/characters respectively when comparing lines, but how would you force uniq to skip the last N fields/characters? ...
My backup.zip has the following structure. OverallFolder lots of files and subfolders inside i used this unzip backup.zip -d ~/public_html/demo so i end up with ~/public_html/demo/OverallFolder/my other files. How do i extract so that i end up with all my files INSIDE OverallFolder GOING DIRECTLY into ~public_html/demo? ~/publ...
Hi, Is there a way in bash shell scripting so that I can convert a string into lower case string. For example, if $a = "Hi all" I want to convert it to $a = "hi all" Thanks a lot for your help ...
I run emacs on windows. I use cygwin and I have cygwin versions of ruby and rdebug installed as well. When I invoke M-x comint-run ENTER rdebug ENTER, I noticed that it is attempting to run rdebug.bat via the Microsoft Command prompt, instead of using bash to run rdebug (without the .bat). I'd like comint-run to use bash to invoke any pr...
How do I get events about changed files, directories and media in a Windows service? ...
Is there a way to set the debug mode(set -x) on a KornShell script globally? Currently it seems I have do something like the following: a(){ set -x #commands } b(){ set -x #more commands } set-x a #commands b I would really like to only have to call the set-x command in one place. Note: This is all in KSH88 on AIX. E...
is there any shell command to insert a string of characters in every line of a file.. < in the beginning or the end of every line > ...
I've been trying to grep an exact shell 'variable' using word boundaries, grep "\<$variable\>" file.txt but haven't managed to; I've tried everything else but haven't succeeded. Actually I'm invoking grep from a Perl script: $attrval=`/usr/bin/grep "\<$_[0]\>" $upgradetmpdir/fullConfiguration.txt` $_[0] and $upgradetmpdir/fullConf...
I want to write a bash script which will use a list of all the directories containing specific files. I can use find to echo the path of each and every matching file. I only want to list the path to the directory containing at least one matching file. For example, given the following directory structure: dir1/ matches1 matches...
Is there a JavaScript interpretor available in Bash (or for that matter any other shell) just like there is for Perl and Python. I have written some JavaScript code as part of web programming and was wondering if its used as a shell scripting language as well? Note : Please feel free to edit this question, if it feels subjective. ...
There are a lot of solutions for restricting an application from running twice. Searching by process name, using a named mutex etc. But I all of these methods don't work if I want to restrict my application to the shell session. A user may have more than login session and shell on windows (right?)? If this is true I want to be able to r...
Hi Folks, Have people noticed that if you modify the source of a shell script, any instances that are currently running are liable to fail? This in my opinion is very bad; it means that I have to make sure all instances of a script are stopped before I make changes. My preferred behavior would be that existing scripts continue running...
So I just had like this mental explosion dude! I was looking at my Python source code and was reading some comments and then I looked a the comments again. When I came across this: #!/usr/bin/env python # A regular comment Which made me wonder, was # chosen as the symbol to start a comment because it would allow the python program to ...
I would like to start a few shells, and set their directories from my .emacs. Opening them is easy: ;; run a few shells. (shell "*shell5*") (shell "*shell6*") (shell "*shell7*") But I would like to specify their directory, too. ...
I would like to create a pipe in a ksh script (using exec) that pipe's to a tee, and sends the output to a pipe. Current: #Redirect EVERYTHING exec 3>&1 #Save STDOUT as 3 exec 4>&2 #Save STDERR as 4 exec 1>${Log} #Redirect STDOUT to a log exec 2>&1 #Redirect STDERR to STDOUT What'd I'd like to do (but I don't have the syntax correct)...
Hello, I want to execute the shell command: "C:\Temp\gc.exe 1" but I want to do it using Visual Basic for Applications. How can I do it? Thanks in advance! ...
I have a somewhat convoluted deploy procedure that I'd love to script. I'm not sure how easy or hard it will be. Here's what needs to happen: sftp myApp.war from my local machine to Server A sftp myApp.war from Server A to Server B (presumably ssh-ing in to Server A in order to run sftp on Server A) run jar xvf unab.war on Server B W...
I'm working on a Command Line app to help me on launchd tasks to know if a task is running by returning a BOOL, the problem comes when i need to do a command line and obtain the output for further parsing. i'm coding it in C/C++ so i can't use NSTask for it, any ideas on how to achieve the goal? The Command sudo launchctl list -x [job...
Hello, Is it possible to do a grep with keywords stored in the array. Here is the possible code snippet... Please correct it args=("key1" "key2" "key3") cat file_name |while read line echo $line | grep -q -w ${args[c]} done At the moment, I can search for only one keyword. I would like to search for all the keywords which is stored...