I'm trying to work out how to use something like grep or sed or awk (or maybe even some Perl) to extract a string of characters which appears in a predictable place in a series of text files. Help/advice/tutorials very welcome!
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posted by infinitejones
on Mar 15, 2013 -
8 answers
I want to write a script to automatically check for new emails with a certain gmail label, then check the message body for a link containing a certain keyword or phrase and click on it. The logic part should be easy, but what program(s) should I be using for this? Requirements...
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posted by querty
on Mar 13, 2013 -
7 answers
StatFilter: Would anybody be able to recommend a good introduction to the statistical computing language "R" that a reasonably quantitatively-adept psychologist might be able to work through on his own? Something like a step-by-step book or textbook with exercises would be great to help me become more fluent in R. (My colleagues at work who use R are primarily computer scientists who either first learned MatLab or are brilliant autodidacts when it comes to learning different scripting languages, and thus don't have any suggestions; Googling has mostly proferred a somewhat obscurely structured guide from the R authors and lots of invocations to just learn on my own, somehow...). I've become familiar with how to do many individually useful tasks in data structuring and analysis, but I feel a bit like a very high-functioning tourist who has learned a lot of phrases to get around but who would be lost and mugged in an alleyway if I strayed off the beaten path.
posted by Keter
on Feb 7, 2013 -
16 answers
I have a file listing all my long keyID's for GPG and want to lookup the emails associated with these.
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posted by jago25_98
on Jan 13, 2013 -
3 answers
An annoying but necessary part of my job is logging into a company website and checking to see if a number has gone up. If it has gone up, I start working on stuff to make the number go down. Checking the website every five seconds gets boring really fast and really cuts into the time I spend working on other things. Does anyone know of some programs out there that will automate this checking and notify me if the number has gone up? More deets inside!
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posted by Willie0248
on Sep 5, 2012 -
11 answers
I want to make an elementary school computer lab
just work, magically if possible. I am Windows deficient and could use guidance.
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posted by argybarg
on Jul 5, 2012 -
4 answers
Automator/macro/scripting help: Is there a way to automate a series of keystrokes, initiated by a command that I create? Running Mac OS 10.7.3.
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posted by slogger
on Apr 13, 2012 -
9 answers
So I've used Python here and there to solve system administration tasks and create some small web applications (again to solve any issue related to work). Living in the sys admin world, I typically turn to Bash. Bash because I know it well and I can throw out a solution quickly. Problem is I'm starting to interview more and more for "DevOps" positions, what's the best and fastest way to bring my Python (or insert language) abilities up a notch?
I admit that I typically write in Python with one screen trained on the library docs. I've got a solid understanding of data and control structures. I thought maybe coming up with a weekend project might help but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts. Reading good code always helps, but doing is always better for me. I guess the real question is creating something that does x always makes you understand a language at a deeper level (if such thing exists).
posted by snuffaluffagus
on Mar 23, 2012 -
11 answers
VLC scripting help! I'd like to take the incoming video from a camera and split it into two feeds, where the first leg is broadcast over the LAN and the second leg is chroma keyed, then broadcast over the internet. I can't seem to figure out how to capture leg2, though.
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posted by eamondaly
on Mar 16, 2012 -
2 answers
We are doing a campus wide migration to gmail, and that means I have a few hundred thunderbird users who need their settings changed to point to a new imap server (and change their username to username@foo.edu). What is the best way to get this done?
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posted by mrzarquon
on Nov 30, 2011 -
8 answers
I have conflicting needs driving me towards either the new Nexus phone or an iPhone 4S. Which will be better?
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posted by invitapriore
on Oct 25, 2011 -
13 answers
Help me prep as an applicant in an imaginary interview for a junior programming position centered around Linux shell scripts, PHP, and Python, with an emphasis on processing text and URLs (availability, routing, etc).
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posted by jsturgill
on Oct 17, 2011 -
10 answers
I'm looking for a (mostly) pre-made sortable, editable table script that hooks into a mySQL database.
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posted by omnipotentq
on Jun 6, 2011 -
8 answers
How I do know when a specific part of a specific page is updated on the web? I want to take advantage of an online sale, so I need to be notified when the deal is available...
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posted by OneMonkeysUncle
on Mar 28, 2011 -
7 answers
Our company has 5 Windows 2008 Standard (non-R2) servers - none of them set up on AD. I have to create usernames individually each time for each one of them when we have new employees. What would be the best avenue to pursue in order to make this process less terrible?
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posted by Mali
on Feb 8, 2011 -
13 answers
What to do next?
I've been working in software testing for the past 15 years, currently in management and less hands on than I am used to be. I'm starting to realize I am happier in a more hands on role and would like to develop some scripting skills.
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 2, 2010 -
2 answers
Extract
Multiple Data (email, names, dates, and IDs) from a Huge Messy Text File, and Sort Them into a CSV: How do I do this? I've read this on extracting
emails, but I can't figure out how to do this with several different data points.
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posted by darth_tedious
on Oct 19, 2010 -
19 answers
I'm looking for an osx app which would periodically check a folder on a remote WebDAV volume and download anything which has appeared on the same day.
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posted by monocultured
on Sep 3, 2010 -
4 answers
I have a jailbroken iPod with iOS 4. I would like to run a shell script when the device wakes from sleep, or when the wifi interface connects to a certain SSID. What can I use?
posted by harlan
on Aug 29, 2010 -
2 answers
I want to interrupt a playing itunes stream with another program's output. I already have many pieces in place, but I need to trigger itunes to shaddap. How to do?
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posted by disclaimer
on Jul 21, 2010 -
7 answers
I'm not a PHP expert, but I'm working on a simple photo gallery application, and I'd like to add the ability to send it files via email. I know of other products that have this feature, but in my Googling I haven't been able to find any information on how to get started. Might you have any info?
posted by crickets
on Jul 9, 2010 -
12 answers
How do I create a search feature for my website that searches only the meta tags of my pages and displays a list of pages where the search terms appear in the meta tags? In other words, how do I make my site searchable by tag?
posted by markcmyers
on Jun 25, 2010 -
6 answers
I've been doing COM scripting for about two years, using a Sax-basic scripting application. It was a great app. It allowed line-by-line code execution, error reporting, and debug messages.
I want to start using real VBS so I can port my widgets to a wider platform. I know I can write a script app in notepad and just run it with windows script host, but there's no real debugging there.
Is there any free (or cheap) application that allows you to run VB script in a controlled way? I'd rather not plunk down a month's rent for Visual Studio if I can help it.
posted by clarknova
on Jun 3, 2010 -
3 answers
How do I access the previous history state in Javascript for Photoshop?
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posted by lore
on Jun 2, 2010 -
1 answer
In iTunes 9.1, what is the applescript button number for the "Save Genius Playlist" button?
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posted by pompomtom
on May 28, 2010 -
3 answers
How do I obtain a list of all words associated with a list of word roots / stems?
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posted by hooves
on May 13, 2010 -
6 answers
I'd like an ApplesScript that will let me increase or decrease the quote level of text that I've selected (like using ⌘' and ⌥⌘' in Mail).
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posted by davextreme
on Jan 21, 2010 -
4 answers
In OSX, say you have a folder that is often populated with subfolders containing RAR archives spanning multiple files named either in a format like filename.rar, filename.r00, ... filename.r10 or filename01.rar, filename02.rar, .. filename10.rar.
How would you create a folder action, be it mostly Automator, Shell or Actionscript or any other tool based, that would automatically extract the contents of these archives once (and only once) when they are added?
posted by ejoey
on Jan 15, 2010 -
3 answers
Is there some way to do a "mail merge" type operation on plain text, xml or html files without using a word processor?
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posted by geekgirl397
on Nov 25, 2009 -
11 answers
Using Outlook 2007 on windows XP, how do I run a (VBA) script either daily, or on opening the application?
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posted by pompomtom
on Nov 10, 2009 -
4 answers
I need to use a PowerShell script to scan through a large amount of files and folders for certain security permissions. The issue is that it seems that the "Get-ChildItem" function insists on shoving the whole folder and file structure in memory. Since the drive has over a million files in over 30,000 folders, the script runs for 30 minutes, then throws out a System.OutofMemoryException without doing anything else.
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posted by splice
on Oct 8, 2009 -
15 answers
How can I count certain things in a range of cells in Excel that fall between two dates?
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posted by SansPoint
on Sep 2, 2009 -
5 answers
How can I access the "AutoSummary" feature of Microsoft Word progammatically to summarize many documents at once? Alternatively, what other programs are there that will summarize documents that can be accessed programmatically? If this isn't the right place to ask, where is?
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posted by procrastination
on Jul 29, 2009 -
1 answer
I need to write a script of some sort to grab content from a series of web pages. How should I go about it?
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posted by Ziggy Zaga
on Jul 9, 2009 -
12 answers
I need to automate the process of printing a report to PDF with the date in the file name, saving it in an archive folder, printing it, and emailing it as an attachment. I am on a Mac and using Pages, Automator, and AppleScript. Help me find the missing pieces!
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posted by joshrholloway
on Mar 28, 2009 -
4 answers
I've made a large mess and need to fix it. It's a "find this" and "add it once more, but above it, in that same field" dealio in one single tables field in mysql. "This" is a different string every time. Not sure this can be done with mysql, so I'm open to all other ideas.
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posted by dabitch
on Jan 21, 2009 -
19 answers
Shell scripting quandry: running apt-get and then running a command that requires a apt-get installed package fails because bash doesn't wait for apt-get to finish...
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posted by tmcw
on Dec 6, 2008 -
4 answers
BASH Scripting. I'm trying to do a simple "mv" operation with a not-so-simple filename that contains special characters (as in brackets and hyphens). The filename itself is stored within a variable. The operation fails, and I can understand why, but I don't know how to get around it.
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posted by Ziggy Zaga
on Nov 18, 2008 -
11 answers
