I want to run a Terminal command from within FileMaker. I use the Perform AppleScript script step with a native AppleScript:
do shell script "rsync -r Documents/Monturen/ fakeuser#fakeserverhosting.be:www/"
I installed a SSH Key on the remote server. The goal is to automate the sync of images.
I do get a 23 error. Any advice on what I'm doing wrong?
This is rsinc error 23 - some files could not be transferred. Try to transfer one file with explicitly defined full file path.
I think there is a problem with the source filepath as well. Shouldn't this be
~/Documents/Monturen
or
~/Documents/Monturen/*
If you have any spaces in your file names or folder names they have to be escaped with \\. The same applies to any apostrophes.
Related
I want to copy a folder ~/Projects/LocalProject onto my server //VM-Server/ServerProject.
I know that I can use GitBash:
cp -r directory-name-1 directory-name-2
But what I'm curious about is, can I create a script to do that by double clicking that script, or adding it as a command to my GitBash, cause I will need that alot?
--Edit--
Tried nothing, as I don't know how to do that. Yes there are hidden files, I don't want them to be copied. There shouldn't be newer files on the destination. I need to manually run it, I thought that's clear as I mentioned the option to have a executable script / or a terminal command.
Option 1: Batch file
You don't even need git-bash; you can make a batch file in any text editor, name it copy to server.bat, and type in cp C:\Users\<Your username>\Projects\LocalProject \\VM-Server\ServerProject.
You can also make a .sh file for use in bash. The command is the same, just make note that Windows uses \, while bash uses / for directory tree
Option 2: Alias
Open your bash_profile file (it's in your git bash install location).
Add a line at the end of the file that says alias copyToServer = 'cp ~/Projects/LocalProject //VM-Server/ServerProject'. Then close git-bash, reopen it and use the command by typing copyToServer as a bash command. (It doesn't need to be named copyToServer)
I could not find a usable solution to this seemingly simple problem, despite my best efforts.
I'm using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6
I have a folder I want to copy with the following location:
/Users/ep9k/Desktop/Key-LogEcovaluator/whereami
I want to copy it to this directory using the terminal:
/Users/ep9k/Library/Application/Support/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins
I tried the following commands in the terminal. Notice I am in the 'whereami' folder when doing this:
whereami ep9k$ cp -r /Users/ep9k/Desktop/Key-LogEcovaluator/whereami /Users/ep9k/Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins
whereami ep9k$ cp -a /Users/ep9k/Desktop/Key-LogEcovaluator/whereami /Users/ep9k/Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins
I'm met with the following message indicating I am not using it correctly:
However, I created a "tester" folder on my desktop and can copy to this folder with no problems, using exactly the same command (except with the pathname changed to my tester folder).
I can also copy and paste things to this directory using the GUI "finder". What am I missing?
Your destination path contains at least one whitespace character ("Application Support"), which causes the "cp" command to think it's being given three arguments instead of two. Enclose the destination path in single or double quotes and you should be all right.
I installed Strawberry Perl to run the rouge program in Windows. But when I want to run my program, I receive an error message that you can see on the image:
The system can't find the path specified.
My code is attempting to run "ROUGE-1.5.5.pl" but i think the system can't find this file. So I think maybe I don't initialize the path correctly?
I change my code to :
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Cwd;
$curdir=getcwd;
$ROUGE="..\ROUGE-1.5.5.pl";
chdir("sample-test");
$cmd="$ROUGE -e ..\data -c 95 -2 -1 -U -r 1000 -n 4 -w 1.2 -a DUC2002-ROUGE.in.26.spl.xml > ..\sample-output\output.out";
print $cmd,"\n";
system($cmd);
chdir($curdir);
and i receive this error:
Missing braces on \o{} at C:\runROUGE-test.pl line 7, near "$ROUGE" Execution of C:\runROUGE-test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
As per the screen shot, you are attempting to run \ROUGE-1.5.5.pl where you probably want it without the spurious backslash (or with ..\ROUGE-1.5.5.pl if the parent directory is not on your PATH).
Similarly, you probably want the output in sample-output\output.out, or even just output.out, not \sample-output\output.out unless you specifically have a folder C:\sample-output for this purpose.
The backslash is significant; it is the absolute path to the root (of the current drive, on Windows). ..\ is the relative path to the parent folder.
Why are you writing a Perl script to run a Perl script, though? Either a simple batch file, or copy/pasting the command directly at the DOS prompt would seem like a less roundabout solution.
The problem is that when you are outputting the contents of the program to the file output.out in folder sample-output, the sample-output folder does not exist.
Command Prompt will not create the folders for you, only the files. Try creating a directory first called "sample-output" (In your drive root) such that the path resolves to something like C:\sample-output and run it again.
If the same problem results, try using an absolute path such as C:\sample-output\output.out instead.
I have a pretty basic problem here, that has happened so haphazardly to me that up until now, I've just ignored it. I downloaded tomcat web server and "Murach's Java Servlets and JSP" book is telling me to navigate to the tomcat/bin directory and start the server my typing in Terminal
$ startup
However, I get the error
-bash: startup: command not found
The relevant files in this directory are startup.sh and startup.bat. Typing both of these returns the same error message
So my questions are, what are .bat and sh files, and how do I run these files? I've read several tutorials for different languages and software programs, and some times when the tutorial says execute a bunch of files in the command line, I get a "command not found" error. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This is perplexing to me, so what are some common solutions to solving these sort of "command not found" Terminal problems?
The .sh is for *nix systems and .bat should be for Windows. Since your example shows a bash error and you mention Terminal, I'm assuming it's OS X you're using.
In this case you should go to the folder and type:
./startup.sh
./ just means that you should call the script located in the current directory. (Alternatively, just type the full path of the startup.sh). If it doesn't work then, check if startup.sh has execute permissions.
This is because the script is not in your $PATH. Use
./scriptname
You can also copy this to one of the folders in your $PATH or alter the $PATH variable so you can always use just the script name. Take care, however, there is a reason why your current folder is not in $PATH. It might be a security risk.
If you still have problems executing the script, you might want to check its permissions - you must have execute permissions to execute it, obviously. Use
chmod u+x scriptname
A .sh file is a Unix shell script. A .bat file is a Windows batch file.
Type bash script_name.sh or ./script_name in linux terminal. Before using ./script_name make you script executeable by sudo chmod 700 script_name and type script_name.bat in windows.
Drag-And-Drop
Easiest way for a lazy Mac user like me: Drag-and-drop the startup.sh file from the Finder to the Terminal window and press Return.
To shutdown Tomcat, do the same with shutdown.sh.
You can delete all the .bat files as they are only for a Windows PC, of no use on a Mac to other Unix computer. I delete them as it makes it easier to read that folder's listing.
File Permissions
I find that a fresh Tomcat download will not run on my Mac because of file permission restrictions throwing errors during startup. I use the BatChmod app which wraps a GUI around the equivelant Unix commands to reset file permissions.
Port-Forwarding
Unix systems protect access to ports numbered under 1024. So if you want to use port 80 with Tomcat you will need to learn how to do "port-forwarding" to forward incoming requests to port 8080 where Tomcat listens by default. To do port-forwarding, you issue commands to the packet-filtering (firewall) app built into Mac OS X (and BSD). In the old days we used ipfw. In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and later Apple is moving to a newer tool, pf.
Based on IsmailS' comment the command which worked for me on OSX was:
sudo sh ./startup.sh
On windows type either startup or startup.bat
On unix type ./startup.sh
(assuming you are located in tomcat/bin directory)
Batch files can be run on Linux. This article explains how (http://www.linux.org/threads/running-windows-batch-files-on-linux.7610/).
Type in
chmod 755 scriptname.sh
In other words, give yourself permission to run the file. I'm guessing you only have r/w permission on it.
add #!bin/bash on top of the your .sh file
sudo chmod +x your .sh file
./your.sh file
these steps work~
My suggestion does not come from Terminal; however, this is a much easier way.
For .bat files, you can run them through Wine. Use this video to help you install it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS8i_blVCA. This video will explain how to install, setup and use Wine. It is as simple as opening the .bat file in Wine itself, and it will run just as it would on Windows.
Through this, you can also run .exe files, as well .sh files.
This is much simpler than trying to work out all kinds of terminal code.
I had this problem for *.sh files in Yosemite and couldn't figure out what the correct path is for a folder on my Desktop...after some gnashing of teeth, dragged the file itself into the Terminal window; hey presto!!
Is it possible to run Matlab commands from Mac command line?
The matlab script is in the bin subdirectory of the MATLAB app bundle. On my machine, this means I can run it like so:
/Applications/MATLAB_R2012a_Student.app/bin/matlab
If you want this bin directory on your path (so that you can just run matlab, mex, etc), edit or create a new text file called .bash_profile in the top level of your home directory with the following line:
export PATH=/Applications/MATLAB_R2012a_Student.app/bin:$PATH
Replacing the "MATLAB_R2012a_Student" part with the name of your actual MATLAB app bundle. This will not come into effect for currently open terminals, but newly opened terminals should work properly.
You need the full path to the MATLAB executable, and you can use the -r option to run a command in the MATLAB that you start, as per the doc here.
As already mentioned above you need to first edit your .bash_profile file by adding the following line (replace 'MATLAB_R2020b' with your MATLAB version)
export PATH=/Applications/MATLAB_R2020b.app/bin:$PATH
Then after restarting the terminal you can open MATLAB by inserting the command
/Applications/MATLAB_R2020b.app/bin/matlab
You can also run your .m scripts by defining the working directory folder and the executable scripts and their paths. You just need to add more commands to the above.
/Applications/MATLAB_R2020b.app/bin/matlab -r "addpath(genpath('{Your working directory folder path}')); cd {Your working directory folder path}; {Your script name}; {Your other script name}; quit;"
Please find a more detailed description of MATLAB command line arguments from:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlabmacos.html#d122e801165