You’re looking for the –data-binary argument: curl -i -X POST host:port/post-file \ -H “Content-Type: text/xml” \ –data-binary “@path/to/file” In the example above, -i prints out all the headers so that you can see what’s going on, and -X POST makes it explicit that this is a post. Both of these can be safely omitted without … Read more
For BSD or GNU grep you can use -B num to set how many lines before the match and -A num for the number of lines after the match. grep -B 3 -A 2 foo README.txt If you want the same number of lines before and after you can use -C num. grep -C 3 … Read more
Sorry for the self-promotion, I’m the author of another Console Emulator, not mentioned here. ConEmu is opensource console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window. Initially, the program was designed to work with Far Manager (my favorite shell replacement – file and archive management, command history … Read more
There’s no simple way to do inplace editing using UNIX utilities, but here’s one inplace file modification solution that you might be able to modify to work for you (courtesy of Robert Bonomi at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.shell/5PRRZIP0v64): bytes=$(head -37 “$file” |wc -c) dd if=”$file” bs=”$bytes” skip=1 conv=notrunc of=”$file” The final file should be $bytes bytes smaller than … Read more
If you want to search for an exact string, grep -F ‘(some|group)\n’ … -F tells grep to treat the pattern as is, with no interpretation as a regex. (This is often available as fgrep as well.)
This is the method I’m using in a project I am currently working on. var exec = require(‘child_process’).exec; function execute(command, callback){ exec(command, function(error, stdout, stderr){ callback(stdout); }); }; Example of retrieving a git user: module.exports.getGitUser = function(callback){ execute(“git config –global user.name”, function(name){ execute(“git config –global user.email”, function(email){ callback({ name: name.replace(“\n”, “”), email: email.replace(“\n”, “”) }); … Read more
You need to add your PHP installation directory to the %PATH% environment variable, or work from the PHP installation directory. To add it to path (The best approach – Edited for Windows 7): Right-click on a My Computer icon Click Properties Click Advanced system settings from the left nav Click Advanced tab Click Environment Variables … Read more
Use the php_sapi_name() function. if (php_sapi_name() == “cli”) { // In cli-mode } else { // Not in cli-mode } Here are some relevant notes from the docs: php_sapi_name — Returns the type of interface between web server and PHP Although not exhaustive, the possible return values include aolserver, apache, apache2filter, apache2handler, caudium, cgi (until … Read more
Updated answer: You can put an equals sign when you call it: python Application.py -env=”-env” Original answer: I too have had troubles doing what you are trying to do, but there is a workaround build into argparse, which is the parse_known_args method. This will let all arguments that you haven’t defined pass through the parser … Read more
While django is primarily for web apps it has a powerful and easy to use ORM that can be used for CLI apps as well. To use django script as a standalone script without a webserver, all you need to do is to add the following to the top of the file. import os, sys … Read more