How would I write a scheduled task on OSX to watch for a specific file and then have the scheduler rename it with an id?
Another program current creates a file, but it keeps getting overwritten. I don't have access to the other program's source code.
I'm a total noob in non-web scripting. Thanks in advance for the help.
Check out Folder Actions and Automator. Together they can be pretty powerful. There are lots of blogs out there describing their use.
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Now that I am runing Radicale on my own Linux server (to manage calendars and contacts), I am trying to figure out how to backup Addressbooks via a bash script (which I could then cron or manually launch).
The exporting part is not going to be so difficult thanks to Duplicity.
But where the ... is located the Addressbook ?
There is no *.vcf related to Radicale anywhere on my system.
I've found it.
It is in located in the personal directory :
~/.config/radicale/collections/contact/AddressBook.vcf
In ~/.config/radicale/collections/contact you there are as well the calendars.
Hum. This seems to me to be (remotly) a programing question, since its answer is program for who want to program its own bash backup script.
I have a script that loads an excel file from some link, and then writes some information from the excel file to a text file. I set up a task on Task Scheduler to run the script and then email the text file, and it works fine while logged on. It does not, however, run while the computer is locked.
Unfortunately, I need the task to be run in the early morning before I get to work. Is there any way to make this work?
Unfortunately I don't think this is possible. This link HERE contains someone with a similar situation that was solved by making the computer "lock" via custom vbscript. However this is not the traditional "Lock" of a computer and actually just disables and removes a bunch of things... Further down they mention it being possible but it's very limited on what can happen... and making windows active is one of the limitations.
I'm developing an app. The operating system I'm using is linux. I need to run if possible a ruby script on the file created in the directory. I need to keep this script always running. The first thing I thought about is inotify:
The inotify API provides a mechanism for monitoring file system events. Inotify can be used to monitor individual files, or to monitor directories.
It's exactly what I need, then I found "rb-inotify", a wrapper fir inotify.
Do you think there is a better way of doing what I need than using inotify? Also, I really don't understand the way that I have to use rb-inotify.
I just create, for example, a rb file with:
notifier = INotify::Notifier.new
notifier.watch("directory/to/check",:create) do |event|
#do task with event.name file
end
notifier.run
Then I just ruby myRBNotifier.rb, and it will stay looping for ever. How do I stop it? Any idea? Is this a good approach?
I'd recommend looking at god. It's designed for this sort of task, and makes it pretty easy to build a monitoring system for background and daemon apps.
As for the main code itself, inotify isn't cross-platform, so if you have a possibility you'll need to run on Windows or Mac OS then you'll need a different solution. It's not too hard to write a little piece of code that checks your target directory periodically for a change. If you need to know what changed, read and cache the directory entries then compare them the next time your code runs. Use sleep between runs to wait some period of time before looping.
The old-school method of doing similar things is to use cron to fire off a job at regular intervals. That job can be your script that checks whether the file list changed by comparing it to the cached version, then acting as needed if something is different.
Just run your script in the background with
ruby myRBNotifier.rb &
When you need to stop it, find the process id and use kill on it:
ps ux
kill [whatever pid your process gets from the OS]
Does that answer your question?
If you're running on a mac/unix machine, look at the launchctl man page. You can set up a process to run and execute a ruby script whenever a file changes. It's highly configurable.
I need to find out exactly what files/directories a Lua program uses so I can try to only pack what it needs into a ZIP file, and come up with a simple way to deploy this script.
I used SysInternals' Process Monitor, but I'm surprised by the small amount of information it returned while it watched the program (For Lua users out there, it's wsapi.exe, which is the launcher for the light-weight Xavante web server).
Does someone know of a good Windows application that can completely monitor what a program does, eg. something like a live version of the venerable PCMag's InCtrl5.
Thank you.
Process monitor will catch everything. If it's not catching the action then it must be happening in a different process. Try filtering based on the files you expect to be used rather than the process you expect it to happen in.
i wanna to create a cron job on windows that daily delete files from a specific folder.
how can i do this??
Thanks in advance
Use Schedule tasks in windows. Check here. You can use del command to remove one or more files. Put it inside a batch script and schedule it as a task.
You want Scheduled Tasks.
With Scheduled Tasks, you can schedule
any script, program, or document to
run at a time that is most convenient
for you. Scheduled Tasks starts every
time that you start Windows XP and
runs in the background, and it starts
each task that you schedule at the
time that you specify when you create
the task.
Edit your question if you specifically need help with the deleting files bit, but typing in help del at a command prompt should tell you everything you need to know.
I use Cron for Windows, it's very easy to use if you are familiar with cron from *nix