Suppose you wanted to determine the length of time it took to complete the execution of a bash script. Rather than sitting in front of the computer and estimating the time elapsed by watching the script execute with a stopwatch, it can be done with a few lines of code. Near the top of the script add the following variable…
Read More »When using if then statements in your scripts, these statements will likely take up multiple lines. Sometimes, you may want a simple if then statement and would prefer to write only one line of code. This is a quick tip I picked up the other day. It is a simplification and explanation off how to combine multiple lines of code…
Read More »Using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved Plugin (version 2.x) for WordPress has really given the code on this site more curb appeal. As many brushes that come with the plugin and searching through the third-party brushes throughout the Internet, I could not track down a brush for INNO Setup scripts. After a couple of hours and many attempts at this, I have…
Read More »There was a CentOS server where the IP address needed to be changed. Searches through the Internet revealed a series of commands that would do the trick. This script incorporates these commands into a single utility or bash script. This may not be all inclusive, but it did work for me on a CentOS 5.8 server. To use this script,…
Read More »There was a CentOS server where the name needed to be changed. Searches through the Internet revealed a series of commands that would do the trick. This script incorporates these commands into a single utility or bash script. This may not be all inclusive, but it did work for me on a CentOS 5.8 server. To use this script, simply…
Read More »SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. It uses the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev. It is prepackaged with a select handful of brushes, which includes several third-party brushes. There are many more third-party brushes that are available and not part of the plug-in package….
Read More »A case where a Microsoft Windows print server may once existed and a new print server had been put into place; the local workstations that accessed the printer shares of the original print server no longer require those shares. Here is a script to remove all local printers prior to adding new printers. wmic printer where “Local=’FALSE'” delete /nointeractive Source…
Read More »I know that there is a Julian Day Converter that has been around for years. It, however, is no longer supported. The window can sometimes be a little messy to re-size and it is expressed by dd/mm/yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy for which I am more used to. Well, here is my attempt at a calculator using AutoIt and Koda. This calculator…
Read More »I know that there is a Julian Day Converter that has been around for years. It, however, is no longer supported. The window can sometimes be a little messy to resize and it is expressed by dd/mm/yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy for which I am more used to. Well, here is my attempt at a calculator using AutoIt and Koda. This calculator…
Read More »From time to time a DOS batch (“bat” or “cmd”) file needs to be written to perform some task or series of tasks. There are various commands that I seem to consistantly search for on the Internet. Here is a list of some of those useful DOS batch commands. How to delete files equal to zero bytes in size. Delete…
Read More »If you would ever want to use a command line delete all the files and folders from within a folder without deleting the folder itself, a batch file can be constructed. Warning: There are a few things that I discovered while testing this script. Firstly, the CD command, which is part of this script will accept a / character as…
Read More »There are many ‘solutions’ that exist that will parse through a text file and other utilities that have specific functions designed to parse through an XML file. After trying several applications only one was capable of effeciently search and replace text within (in this case) an XML file that is over 300 MB in size. The whole process took less…
Read More »A fantastic write-up for a batch file, DOS Batch – Find and Replace, that allows string substitution in a text file. It parses each line of a text file for a particular string and replaces it with another string. For example, to replace all occurrences of “red” in “color.txt” with “blue” and put the output on the screen. The script…
Read More »Use a DOS script to automate a process where by using the date /T command would return the previous month, rather than the current month. This actually sounds easier than it is. For the desired results, a couple of conditions were considered. Firstly, if in the month of January or one, then the subtracted value of one minus one equals…
Read More »On a Microsoft Windows server, there is a folder that contains 1000s of logfiles. Each logfile varies by name and size. I wanted a script that would compress all logfiles into a single zip file that were older than seven days. After the compression is completed and the zip file is created, all logs older than seven days will be…
Read More »If you have ever installed Java Development Kit (“JDK”) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (“RHEL”) 5.x or CentOS 5.x operating system (“OS”), then you are aware of how manual the installation can be. Prompt after prompt to install. After a lot of research and testing, here is a completely automated script to install JDK on a CentOS or RHEL…
Read More »If you CentOS network configuration is set at DHCP and you want to change your network configuration to a static IP address, then read on. The network configuration settings are generatlly found and edited in two places. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to resemble the following (replace the network addresses with your own). DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0…
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