Tag Archives: scripting

Windows scripting sucks or does it?

Posted on March 3, 2017 by DocDock

I am not a fan of the big MS.  It started a long time ago when my funds were limited and I simply couldn’t afford to keep up with the MS upgrade schedule.  Not all of their software back in the … Continue reading →

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command line fun – finding more space

Posted on February 22, 2017 by DocDock

I may not know where I set down my keys or my latest copy of Linux Magazine, but I do know where my programs are installed.  If I cannot think of where one of my files is I can always … Continue reading →

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command line fun – finding a list of files

Posted on January 22, 2017 by DocDock

In Unix at the command line there is almost always an alternative method to do something. I usually remember this when I need to process a few files in the current working directory and I may not always have the … Continue reading →

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command line fun – finding the right jar file

Posted on January 15, 2017 by DocDock

Where did I set down my mobile phone is quickly answered by a quick telephone call or a sms from another phone.  If everything were only that simple. I receive a bit of code from a buddy at work that … Continue reading →

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windows scripting

Posted on December 17, 2016 by DocDock

I was asked the other day if I could take over a task that was running on windows machine. The sentence was hardly out of my boss’s mouth when he said that “you unix guys don’t like windows though”. Well, … Continue reading →

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When all you have is a hammer …

Posted on July 18, 2016 by DocDock

I was speaking with a friend the other day and he was telling about this crazy thing that was being done in his department.  There was a task that needed to be done usually once a day and it was … Continue reading →

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command line fun – spaces and arguments

Posted on July 4, 2016 by DocDock

I normally get to control most aspects of the program.  The most important yet trivial is the parameters that are being passed to the program.  Because I know what I want it is usually possible to coerce the calling script … Continue reading →

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command line fun – getting to the base of things

Posted on June 1, 2016 by DocDock

Just a short time back I received a mail from a colleague with an error message.  The question from him was about the error and more importantly was this my program.  I did find some code that generated the same … Continue reading →

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command line fun – listing and sorting

Posted on May 6, 2016 by DocDock

Linux is not Unix yet it is very similar.  They are so similar I never really notice the difference, even when writing scripts.  I needed to get a list of sorted files, so I tried the usual commands. ls -lS … Continue reading →

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command line fun – more fun with sftp

Posted on April 28, 2016 by DocDock

A few days back we needed to copy some files around in the production environment and the task was given to me.  It was one of those rather simple tasks as in the email was some examples from a colleague … Continue reading →

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