do you know some kind of software, or way to script automatic dearchivation on Windows?
Ideally this thing should work like this:
Open file with this script/software
It will search files inside by mask (doc, pdf, jpg...) and if there is <2 of that files - script will open them, if > - unpack to C:/Temp or whatever
If there is archives inside - go to 1 and perform same thing to them
Any help would be appreciated:)
You should use the jolly character("*").
Try telling the script to open a file called *.doc, *pdf or *.jpg.
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I need to find a solution at work to backup specific folders daily, hopefully to a RAR or ZIP file.
If it was on PC, I would have done it already. But I don't have any idea to how to approach it on a Mac.
What I basically want to achieve is an automated task, that can be run with an executable, that does:
compress a specific directory (/Volumes/Audio/Shoko) to a rar or zip file.
(in the zip file exclude all *.wav files in all sub Directories and a directory names "Videos").
move It to a network share (/Volumes/Post Shared/Backup From Sound).
(or compress directly to this folder).
automate the file name of the Zip file with dynamic date and time (so no duplicate file names).
Shutdown Mac when finished.
I want to say again, I don't usually use Mac, so things like what kind of file to open for the script, and stuff like that is not trivial for me, yet.
I have tried to put Mark's bash lines (from the first answer, below) in a txt file and executed it, but it had errors and didn't work.
I also tried to use Automator, but it's too plain, no advanced options.
How can I accomplish this?
I would love a working example :)
Thank You,
Dave
You can just make a bash script that does the backup and then you can either double-click it or run it on a schedule. I don't know your paths and/or tools of choice, but some thing along these lines:
#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=`date +"/Volumes/path/to/network/share/Backup/%Y-%m-%d.tgz"`
cd /directory/to/backup || exit 1
tar -cvz "$FILENAME" .
You can save that on your Desktop as backup and then go in Terminal and type:
chmod +x ~/Desktop/backup
to make it executable. Then you can just double click on it - obviously after changing the paths to reflect what you want to backup and where to.
Also, you may prefer to use some other tools - such as rsync but the method is the same.
I'm having trouble finding the correct method to accomplish a relatively simple task
I'm trying to make a simple executable that I can run/schedule to run.
That
1. Downloads a file from an intranet location (192.168.100.112/file.txt)
2. Uploads the new version file to web (fpt.website.com/docs/file.txt)
There are 5 pdf files that auto generate on an intranet and I would like to keep the web versions updated. Ideally create one executable that does all 5 files at once and have the ability to do each one individually.
thanks
Use the windows ftp command. Is has a -s option for providing ftp "scripts". Basically just add all the commands you need to accomplish your task to something.txt for example:
open 192.168.100.112
get file.txt
close
open fpt.website.com
cd docs
put file.txt
close
bye
then do:
ftp -s:something.txt
You could make ftp scripts, one for each upload. Then put all five commands in a batch file
I am working on an app.I have finished the app development module ,now i am working on getting it ready for delivery to client.
I have to add client's copyrights to all the .h,.m files inn my projects.As there are around 700+ files in this .Also i don't want to use the cntrol+find in entire app and replace it with the copyright content required.
Is there any other approach i can look into to add the copyrights content to it.I heard of creating some sort of batch file and then using terminal to add copyrights to project but i am not sure how to implement this.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Hmm, this may need just a little shell scripting. In general, this is how I would attempt to tackle it:
Create a text file with your copyright.
Create a text file with the (code) file names you need to add the copyright to. (Should be pretty easy with something like ls *.m > script).
Open the script file with a text editor and modify each line so that it reads:
cat copyright 'filename' >
Should be pretty easy to do with a macro
Set the script file's execution bit: chmod a+x script
Run the script by: ./script
Notice that this produces files with '_out' at the end. Change it to what fits you.
I am writting expansion programs to a CAD program called 12d Model. The language I write these expansions in is simply called Macro language and it has a very limited API. So it doesn't have a way to find a file on Windows, list all files in a directory or download a file.
To overcome this I use simple ShellExecute and system calls. For example to list all files in a directory I use the system call "dir C:\ /B > C:\MyCurrentFolder\outfile.txt". One of my needs is to download and parse an XML file but the API has no download function.
Is there a system call to download a file from a URL? Is there some native way to do this? Maybe there is a Windows Application like regedit.exe or something that I can use to download a file?
If not, do you think it would be possible to do it through a batch script?
Windows does have built in FTP support using ftp.exe. So if you could find a FTP mirror of the file, or upload it to one yourself, that might work.
Yes there is a native way to do this. Use the msxsl.exe parser to download the xml file and save it to whatever location you would like. You can do this from the command prompt or from a batch file. Note the one caveat to this is you will need to use an xsl file that does not alter the xml file. The command would look something like this...
c:\msxsl.exe c:\myXML.xml c:\myXSLT.xsl > c:\myXML.xml
Note here the file located at c:\myXSLT.xsl cannot change the source file c:\myXML.xml
I created a simple program that takes the path of a directory as an input, creates an archive of that directory (converting it into a single file), adds a shebang to that file (so that the contents of the file can be easily extracted), and writes the file to the base directory of the specified path.
The problem is that the file does not extract itself when I double click on it. Instead the operating system (I'm using Ubuntu 11.10) tries to open it with gedit. This obviously shows the shebang, random gibberish, and the contents of the archived files.
I made the file executable, first by using chmod +x; and when it still didn't work I tried chmod 777. However it still refuses to execute the file with the shebang when I double click on it. Perhaps this is because it's not a pure text file.
Interestingly when I try to execute the file directly from command line it reads the shebang and extracts the contents of the archive properly. So there's nothing wrong with my file format. I don't know much about what operating systems do when you double click on a file but I would sure like to understand.
It surely makes no sense to add a shebang to a file if you still need to manually execute it from the command line. One advantage could be that you don't need to specify the program to open it with but I believe that's hardly an advantage. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Update 1:
The program that creates the archive is called opm. It can be installed via the node package manager using the following command:
npm install opm
After that you simply use opm to pack and unpack directories for you. For example if I have a directory called test in my home directory then I can open a terminal and execute the following command to pack it:
opm test
This will create an archive of the directory called test.pack in the home directory. The .pack file has the shebang #!/usr/bin/opm. Opening a file with the extension .pack with opm tells it that it's an archive and opm unpacks it in the same directory.
Note: Change the name of the test.pack file if you do not want it to overwrite your existing test directory.
I added the shebang to the .pack file so that it would extract itself when I opened it. However that doesn't seem to work. Nevertheless if I run one of the following command then it works:
./test.pack
You may check my source code and make any modifications to the program as you may wish to.
Update 2:
Alright I created the following .desktop file for opm and stored it in the $HOME/.local/share/applications/ directory:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=OPM
GenericName=Object Packer and Minifier
NoDisplay=true
Comment=JavaScript Package Manager
TryExec=opm
Exec=opm %f
Terminal=false
MimeType=application/opm
Now I was able to associate .pack files with opm by right clicking on a .pack file, going to the Properties window, the Open With tab, and setting opm.desktop as the default application. Now I am able to unpack a .pack file by simply opening it.
However I would like to know how to associate .pack files with the mime type application/opm. Currently the .pack files are associated with application/x-java-pack200. How do I do so? Is it better if I use a different extension (e.g. .opm)? By associating the packed archives with the mime type application/opm will the OS open them with opm by default without having to explicitly set a default application from Properties > Open With?
If there's already a MIME-type associated with .pack then you'll want to use a different extension (.opm) to associate with your MIME-type (application/opm). The way you automatically associate a program that opens files of a specific MIME-type is with xdg-mime .
Alternatively,
Edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and put your MIME/application combo under [Default Applications] like so:
[Default Applications]
application/opm=opm.desktop;
Place your opm.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ folder. (You've already done this)