I have visited StackOverflow thousands of times and it's always incredibly useful. This will be my first question on this site, after spending the entire day attempting to solve a problem.
Long story short, I use a program who's configuration settings allow for custom user programs to be executed with a button click on the main GUI. Alongside this is an input for a cmd line option. You can see the config in this image.
Configuration Settings Window
So I have created a script to execute and have been trying with no success for the entire day. I don't imagine I have to explain what it's like to keep changing small details and even starting over again a dozen times. Basically, when you highlight an order in the program, I want to move any (*.stl) files from the orders folder. The .bat file converted to exe i tried dozens and dozens of similar scripts like the code below. I have a .bat and a .exe that work fine when I am moving a file from my own directories. But now with this very new to me, environment variable. No matter how I format it, it doesn't work. In the beginning it was always exit code 255. But now I get exit codes 0, 1, but no file copy. I have made progress and but decided I need to ask for help.
Thank you in advance.
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for /r %ORDER_FOLDER% %f in (*.stl*) do #copy %f C:\Users\Lap2\Desktop\test_dir
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I'm new to octave, and want to run a few commands on startup automatically every time it opens.
I typed "help startup" and saw "Octave uses the file ".octaverc". I did a bit of searching online at https://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/octave_4.html, and saw the .octaverc file should be in the following path:
OCTAVE_HOME/lib/octave/VERSION/startup/octaverc
PROBLEM:
In that directory I don't have a startup folder, only "oct" and "site". I do see hidden files, which was my first thought since the file begins with "." character. So I then used Agent Ransack in the directory, and still nothing came up.
QUESTION:
1) Do I have to make the startup folder and octaverc file myself?
2) If so, does one, both or none have to be hidden?
3) Can it be a txt file, or does it have a special extension?
4) Do I just type the commands straight into the file or is there special formatting?
NOTE:
In case I'm going about this the wrong way, there are the operations I'd like to have run on startup:
PS1('>> '), addpath('D:\Users\Me\Desktop'), clc
Thanks ahead of time for the help!!
Possible locations (and their differences) for octaverc files are specified in the documentation.
In short, these are, from more general to specific:
octave-home/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc (most generic, for entire system)
octave-home/share/octave/version/m/startup/octaverc (to cover for more than one octave versions installed on the system, possibly requiring different startup scripts)
~/.octaverc (where ~ is unix-speak for a user's home directory -- covering for user-specific startup files)
.octaverc files in any directory, creating specific startup conditions for specific directories
octaverc files are effectively simple script files that are executed from most generic to most specific each time octave starts. Therefore, in the presence of conflicting commands, the more specific file can effectively be used to override the more generic behaviour.
Octave also supports (but does not recommend) the use of the startup.m file, for matlab compatibility.
You might also want to check out pathdef and savepath as well.
As a more general tip, if you ever want to search for a specific keyword from the documentation (e.g. octaverc), you can type this kind of search query in duckduckgo (or google):
octaverc site:https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/
(or just download the documentation as pdf and search the pdf)
Found the solution, the file was in the following path:
OCTAVE_HOME/share/octave/site/m/startup
to find out where OCTAVE_HOME is for you, just type "OCTAVE_HOME" into your Octave command line window.
ANSWERS:
1) You do not have to make a startup octaverc file yourself
2) The file is actually not hidden, so it should be easy to find given you're looking in the right place.
3) The file doesn't have an extension. It's just octaverc.
4) Under the last line of the existing file, you can just append commands as you would type them at the Octave command line window.
the last(7.3.0) octave version placed HERE:/ does not find the THERE:/openEMS/matlab directory even it is already loaded with octaverc or addpath. It keeps looking into the work dir where openEMS is not placed and does not recognize, for instance, the 'physical_constants.m' file.
[Not sure if this is the right place for this question, if not, please correct me!]
I am having frequent BSOD issues with my graphics card driver. On closer inspection, it turns out there is an issue with a driver file called atikmpag.sys - an issue that other people have apparently faced many times before. I found a workaround on this website. In short, the thing I need to do is expand the driver file atikmpag.sy_ to atikmpag.sys. This should be done with the following command line (I have put the file atikmpag.sy_ in a folder called C:\test):
cd C:\test
expand atikmpag.sy_ atikmpag.sys
however, when I execute those two lines, I get a LOT of beeping noises accompanied with the following screen:
After some time, the command line will start responding again and I am left with the message 'atikmpag.sys: no such file or directory' (see image below)
Upon running expand /? I found that the /? flag was not recognized by command prompt. I needed to call expand --help, which showed me the following screen:
It seems to me that I probably installed some program that overwrote the standard windows expand command prompt function and replaced it with some tab-removal functionality. Now my question is: how can I restore/access the original windows function? Or alternatively: is there any other way I can extract the original atikmpag.sy_ file to atikmpag.sys?
You're using the wrong expand (the one which expands tabs to spaces, which makes no sense since this is a binary).
You should be using the one from the windows directory, C:\Windows\System32\expand.exe. If you've lost it try sfc /scannow if you haven't already, or if you need it quick grab it from one of the internet's download sites, and hope it's not riddled with malware.
background info:
I know this question has been asked countless times, but I'm not understanding the answers.
Today is the first time I've ever done anything with python, so I'm a total noob.
I'm using windows 7.
python 3.3.5 lives here: C:\Python33\python.exe
I have a .py file I want to run saved here: C:\Users\Scydmarc\Documents\cs188\python_basics\myfile.py
If I simply double click on myfile.py, it opens, runs, and closes super fast. By doing a perfectly timed printscreen, I can see that it works. It is my understanding that I need to run the file from within python.exe to get the window to stay open and allow me to mess with variables etc after it runs. So I open python.exe. What exactly do I need to type to run myfile.py? I've found lots of people trying to do this, but I guess I'm not understanding the answers. When I try to follow along, I get tangled up with errors. Do you still need to put python before the file name while in the python.exe window? Do I somehow need to specify a full path to the file? Some are actually running from the windows command prompt and not the python command prompt. When trying to change PYTHONPATH, are you supposed to do that from inside python, or the windows command prompt? Some examples use '/', while some use '\'. So, I think a complete example (what to actually type, in what window, line by line, with real filepaths) would clarify a lot for me and be super helpful. I'm thinking if I can actually see it done once, I can figure out how to make it do what I want in the future. Thanks for any help you can give.
in your python dir type python.exe pathtofile.py or set python.exe to your classpath
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IokKz-LZsEo
I have no prior experience working with batch files or shell scripting in general. I need to understand the operations being carried out by a batch file used in a related project. Any resource that gives exhaustive list of batch file commands and what each one does?
Once you get acquainted with the general .BAT file information, using some of the pointers to useful information that other users have posted in the other answers, you might try some of the following strategies that help you understand and analyze the BAT files used int your projects:
add an ECHO command in front of all command invocations
read HELP command for each command line in the BAT file
execute at the command prompt each command line in the BAT file
remove the #echo off at the top of the .BAT file, and see how the BAT progresses
add some PAUSEs to keep viewing some commands on screen before they disappear.
There are some useful answers here in this Stack Overflow question: Best free resource for learning advanced batch-file usage?
As well there are quite a few resources available through google search for Batch file resources, as well as the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_files
That should get you started at least.
A little search on google should give a lot of tutorials and websites with information on writing them for both Windows and Linux.
Maybe you should start from the beginning though.
http://ss64.com/nt/
http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/technotes/program/batch.htm
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchcommands.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MS-DOS_commands
They're just a few examples i found with a little google search. You should search it and find something thats better for you.
Hope this helps.
I'm currently in working on a script to create a custom backup script, the only piece I'm missing is a file monitor. I need some form of a script that will monitor a folder for file changes, and then run a command with the file that's changed.
So, for example, if the file changes, it'll execute "c:/syncbatch.bat %Location_Of_File%"
In VBScript, you can monitor a folder for file changes by subscribing to the WMI __InstanceModificationEvent event. These articles contain sample code that you can learn from and adapt to your specific needs:
WMI and File System Monitoring
How Can I Monitor for Different Types of Events With Just One Script?
Calling WMI is fairly cryptic and it causes the WMI service to start running which can contribute to bloat since its fairly large and you really can't cancel the file change notifications you've requested from it without rebooting. Some people experimenting with remote printing from a Dropbox folder found that a simple VBScript program that ran an endless loop with a 10 second WScript.Sleep call in the loop used far less resource. Of course to stop it you have to task kill that script or program into it some exit trigger it can find like a specifically named empty file in the watch folder, but that is still easier to do than messing with WMI.
The Folder Spy http://venussoftcorporation.blogspot.com/2010/05/thefolderspy.html
is a free lightweight DOT.NET based file/folder watching GUI application I'ved used before to run scripts based on file changes. It looks like the new version can pass the event filename to the launched command. The old version I had didn't yet support file event info so when launched, my script had to instance a File System Object and scan the watched folder to locate the new files based on criteria like datestamps and sizes.
This newer version appears to let you pass the file name to the script if you say myscript.vbs "*f" on the optional script call entry. Quotes can be important when passing file paths that have spaces in folder names. Just remember if you are watching change events you will get a lot of them as a file grows or is edited, usually you just want notification of file adds or deletes.
Another trick your script can do is put the file size in a variable, sleep for a few seconds, and check the file again to see if its changed. if it hasn't changed in a few seconds you can usually assume whatever created it is done writing it to disk. if it keeps changing just loop until its stable.