I am trying to record mouse positions and events for later playback (linux - Ubuntu 20.04).
Right now this happens at regular intervals - every 2 seconds I record where the mouse is with xdotools and take a screenshot. In a separate question elsewhere I am looking for better tools to do this.
However in a separate train of thought I am also looking for something that would execute a command when I - for example - loudly say "NOW".
I have looked for tools and while there's definitely interesting stuff out there, this is most likely a one-off, and the installation and training process offsets the benefits.
So, anything out there that will do something for example when a sound above a threshold is captured by the microphone?
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I am a student at university and I am stuck with some code for my assignment, and would appreciate the help from the community with this. I am very new to bash, and I would say that I do not know how to write bash at all, I struggle with it. I much prefer python or C# lol. Anyways, I am required to create a cluster monitor. I have got to create a simple menu with 2 options that allows the user to choose between the options "Cluster Status" and "Process Analytics". I have created the menu, it's very basic, and the code for that is below:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo="Choose one of the following options: "
echo="1) Cluster Status"
echo="2) Process Analytics"
echo="3) Exit"
read ans:
if ["$ans"=='1']
then
echo="Loading..."
bash Cluster_Status.sh
elif ["$ans"=='2']
then
echo="Loading..."
bash Process_Analytics.sh
elif ["$ans"=='3']
then
echo="Loading..."
In this menu, I also need to make it so that when it has completed execution, it pauses and returns to the main menu.
I have got 5 nodes for the cluster, with sample data in them, which can be provided if anyone wants to help with this.
The part that I am most stuck with is the creating of the cluster status and the process analytics part of this.
The cluster status is a script that provides a screen and file printout of the current stats of the entire cluster, with all of its parameters set in a nodeconfig.read.me file, which I have got. The stats need to be presented either in a sum or as an average. For example, the total amount of CPUs would be a sum, and the total CPU load would be an average. I need to do this in a table, which I cannot figure out how to do, as I am limited by the amount of different functions I can use.
The process analytics section asks me to process the current processes that are running on each node, if there are any, and I need to present the following stats onscreen and also have it saved to a file:
• Most popular process (in terms of instances running)
• Most CPU demanding process (in terms of CPU usage)
• Most MEM demanding process (in terms of Memory usage)
• Most Disk demanding process (in terms of Disk usage)
• Most Net demanding process (in terms of Network usage)
• 5 top users of CPU/MEM/DISK & Net (separate tables)
I have got to do this in PuTTy, so I am limited to the built in functions of PuTTy, cat, grep, ls, pipe, echo, tr, tee, cut, touch, head, tail. These are the only things that I can use when writing this, and because of the limitation, I am stuck when trying to find how to write this. I have researched how to do this for the last week, and I still do not know how to complete this. I do not ask for this assignment to be completed by anyone. I just want to ask for help on how to use these commands to be able to create this script. Thank you for your help from now, and I am sorry if this is posted in the wrong area. I am still fairly new with using stackoverflow.
I'm having trouble monitoring a file for changes. I need to be able to know when a file changes, and when it does, I need the new line that was added. I intend to parse each line and find ones that match certain criteria, and act on information in those lines. I know the expected number of matching lines ahead of time, but I do not know how many lines in total will be added to the file, or where the matching lines will be.
I've tried 2 packages so far, with no avail.
fsnotify/fsnotify
As fas as I can tell, fsnotify can only tell me when a file is modified, not what the details of the modification was. Since I need to know what exactly was added to the file, this is no good for me.
(As a side-question, can this be run in a loop? The example that I tried exited after just one modification. I need to monitor for multiple modifications.)
hpcloud/tail
This package tries to mimic the Unix tail command, but it seems to have its own issues. The output that I get includes timestamps and other data - I just want the added line, nothing else. Also, it seems to think a file has been modified multiple times, even when it's just one edit. Further, the deal breaker here is that it does not output the last line if the line was not followed by a newline character.
Delegating to tail
I came across this answer, which suggests to delegate this work to the tail command itself, but I need this to work cross-platform (specifically, macOS, Linux and Windows). I don't believe that an equivalent command exists on Windows.
How do I go about tackling this?
#user2515526,
Usually changed diff is out of scope of file watchers' functionality, because, you know, you could change an image, and a watcher would need to keep a track several Mb of a diff in memory, and what if we have thousands of files?
However, as bad as it sounds, this may be exactly the way you want to implement this (sure, depends on your app, etc. - could be fine for text files), i.e. - keeping a map of diffs (1 diff per file) since last modification. Cannot say I like it, but sounds like fsnotify has no support for changes/diffs that you need.
Also, regarding your question about running in a loop, maybe you can get some hints here: https://github.com/kataras/iris/blob/8370d76910cdd8de043753ed81ae080eae8dc798/utils/file.go
Its a framework that allows to build a server that watches for TypeScript file changes. So sounds similar to your case/question.
Cheers,
-D
I'm running a process that will take, optimistically, several hours, and in the worst case, probably a couple of days.
I've tried a couple of times to run it and it just never seems to complete (I should add, I didn't write the program, it's just a big dataset). I know my syntax for the command is correct as I use it all the time for smaller data and it works properly (I'll spare you the details as it is obscure for SO and I don't think that relevant to the question).
Consequently, I'd like to leave the program unattended running as a fork with &.
Now, I'm not totally sure whether the process is just grinding to a halt or is running but taking much longer than expected.
Is there any way to check the progress of the process other than ps and top + 1 (to check CPU use).
My only other thought was to get the process to output a logfile and periodically check to see if the logfile has grown in size/content.
As a sidebar, is it necessary to also use nohup with a forked command?
I would use screen for this purpose. see the man for more reference
Brief summary how to use:
screen -S some_session_name - starts a new screen session named session_name
Ctrl + a + d - detach session
screen -r some_session_name returns you to your session
I'm running into some considerable speed bottlenecks with a Python-Matplotlib-Xcode combination. I know some immediate responses will probably ask "Why are you doing python stuff in Xcode, just man up and use vim" --> I like the organizing ability and the built in version control, it makes elements of my work easier to deal with.
Getting python to run in xcode in the first place was a bit more tricky than I had hoped, but its possible. Now I have the following scenario:
A master file, 'main.py' does all the import stuff for me and sets up some universal formatting to make all the figures (for eventual inclusion in my PhD thesis) nice and uniform. Afterwards it runs a series of execfile commands to generate whichever graphics I need. Two things I can think of right off the bat:
1) at the very beginning of main.py after I import all the normal python stuff you tend to need, I call a system script which checks whether a certain filesystem is mounted. I keep all my climate model data on there since my local hard drive is too small to deal with all of it at once. Python pauses itself and waits for the system to do its thing, but once the filesystem has been found, it keeps going. Usually this only needs to happen once in the morning when I get to work, or if the VPN server kicked me off for whatever reason. (Side question, it'd be cool to know if theres a trick to automate an VPN login to reconnect as soon as it notices its not connected)
2) I'm not sure how much xcode is using on its own. running the same program from terminal is (somewhat) faster. I've tried to be memory conscience and turn off stuff I don't need while running the python/xcode combination.
Also, python launches a little window whenever I call plt.show(), this in itself takes time, I've considered just saving them as quick png files and opening them with some other viewer, although I guess that would also have to somehow take time to open up. Given how often these graphics change as I add model runs or think of nicer ways of displaying the data, it'd be nice to not waste something on the order of 15 to 30 minutes (possibly more) out of the entire day twiddling my thumbs and waiting for a window to pop up.
Benchmark it!
import datetime
start = datetime.datetime.now()
# your plotting code
td = datetime.datetime.now() - start
print td.total_seconds() # requires python version >= 2.7
Run it in xcode and from the command line, see what the difference is.
This is so wrong.
I want to perform a large copy operation; moving 250 GB from my laptop hard drive to an external drive.
OSX lion claims this will take about five hours.
After a couple of hours of chugging, it reports that one particular file could not be copied (for whatever reason; I cannot remember and I don't have the patience to repeat the experiment at the moment).
And on that note it bails.
I am frankly left aghast.
That this problem persists in this day and age is to me scarcely believable. I remember hitting up against the same scenario 20 years back with Windows 3.1.
How hard would it be for the folks at Apple (or Microsoft for that matter) to implement file copying in such a way that it skips over failures, writing a list of failed operations on-the-fly to stderr? And how much more useful would that implementation be? (both these questions are rhetorical by the way; simply an expression of my utter bewilderment; please don't answer them unless by means of comments or supplements to an answer to the actual question, which follows:).
More to the point (and this is my actual question), how can I implement this myself in OS X?
PS I'm open to all solutions here: programmatic / scripting / third-party software
I hear and understand your rant, but this is bordering on being a SuperUser-type question and not a programming question (saved only by the fact you said you would like to implement this yourself).
From the description, it sounds like the Finder bailed when it couldn't copy one particular file (my guess is that it was looking for admin and/or root permission for some priviledged folder).
For massive copies like this, you can use the Terminal command line:
e.g.
cp
or
sudo cp
with options like "-R" (which continues copying even if errors are detected -- unless you're using "legacy" mode) or "-n" (don't copy if the file already exists at the destination). You can see all the possible options by typing in "man cp" at the Terminal command line.
If you really wanted to do this programatically, there are options in NSWorkspace (the performFileoperation:source:destination:files:tag: method (documentation linked for you, look at the NSWorkspaceCopyOperation constant). You can also do more low level stuff via "NSFileManager" and it's copyItemAtPath:toPath:error: method, but that's really getting to brute-force approaches there.