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- GUI scripting with Zenity
- Vincent Danen introduces you to Zenity, a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. Zenity creates GUI widgets and windows that can be used in a shell script. by Vincent Danen
- Tags: Shell Script, Window, GUI, Zenity, Vincent Danen, Construction
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- GUI scripting with Zenity
- Zenity is a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. Similar to the dialog tool, which creates nice "graphical" text interfaces for the CLI, Zenity creates GUI widgets and windows that can be used in a shell script.
- Tags: Shell Script, GUI, Vincent Danen, Zenity
- Download resources 2008-07-08
- Improve Your Scripting With the test Command
- The all too often underappreciated shell script is limited in power only by the ability of the person writing it. Every operation undertaken in a shell script, beyond the simplest grouping of commands, requires an examination of conditions. All shell script "Logic" - to use the term in its loosest...
- Tags: Shell Script
- White papers
- GoogleMapRipper (zip)
- GoogleMapRipper is a tool for automatically creating large maps from Google Maps. It is meant to spare us the trouble of having to paste together many screenshots, in order to print a map for a route or a small tour. The program writes a UNIX shell script. That script uses...
- Tags: Shell Script, Map, LangeJansen, GoogleMapRipper
- Software downloads 2007-07-23
- Using rsh-remote shell scripts on windows
- HiI am searcching on how to excute a remote script on remote machine using rsh but not getting any samples for windows.I have excuted following comandrsh indica cat c:tmpaa.bat >> d:pp.batI am getting following errorrsh: can't establish connectionconnetion refusedcan you provide me what is to be dome to...
- Tags: Construction, s_v_joshi@..., window, shell script
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- Help required in Shell Script
- Shell script 1.how to generate the following series ,1,3,2,4,3,5,4,6......1002.how to write a shell script to check if a given string is palindrome or not without reversing the string3.how to write a shell script to display the following pattern using while loop.1223334444
- Tags: homosapien2001@..., shell script
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- KeyCamX (dmg)
- KeyCamX is simple and effective home video surveillance and Webcam software for Macintosh. It can record images simultaneously from multiple cameras compatible with your Mac both Intel and PowerPC, for example internal or external iSight, mini DV camcorder, or any USB and FireWire video device supported by Macam, IOXperts or...
- Tags: Home Video, Shell Script, Apple Macintosh, KeyCamX, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-04-27
- Scripting in Linux with execline
- Vincent Danen describes an alternative to traditional shell scripts, like bash. If you are resource-conscious, you may want to consider execline scripting as a leaner, more secure, and faster scripting method. Most individuals write shell scripts in bash, or "sh" (which is often, but not always, bash). Other...
- Tags: Linux, Vincent Danen, shell, shell script, TÂ Â 0:00, Linux Tips Newsletter, Execline
- Technical articles 2006-12-21
- sys utilities written in Perl versus shell scripts, which is better?
- I've been putting together some system scripts for where I'm working right now on an OS X 10 system. They were specific in the request, but I coded them in a way to allow them to be general purpose. In other words, I wrote them to use config...
- Tags: C, droolin, linux, networking, Perl, programming, security, shell, shell script, software, utilities
- Discussion threads 2006-10-25
- Use built-in UNIX tools to automatically back up your vital data
- A critical part of any system maintenance plan is a sound data backup regimen. Backing up your data on a regular basis, regardless of whether you're a home user or a network administrator, can save you a significant amount of time and heartache when your disk crashes or disaster strikes....
- Tags: Shell Script, built-In, Data Backup, Tool, Backups, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2005-06-20
- Unix file encrypt accessible to Windows
- I am putting in place a CVS repository that will reside on a Mac OS X server accessible by the application staff via ssh and pserver. I strongly suggested, and they agreed that we put in place a backup procedure that is automated. This backup procedure looks to be a...
- Tags: encryption, unix, cvs, windows, CVS Corp., GpG, Microsoft Windows, droolin, linux, backup, Perl, shell script
- Discussion threads 2006-09-13
- Use 'heredoc' in shell scripts
- Linux users who work with large blocks of text may want to consider using heredoc. Find out how to use heredoc in a single statement to print many lines of text in a shell script. A lesser-known feature of shell scripting is "here documents" or heredoc....
- Tags: Vincent Danen, shell script, EOT, Linux Tips Newsletter, Block, Heredoc
- Technical articles 2005-06-06
- Make Linux act like DOS with these shell scripts
- One of the most challenging things an IT support professional faces when adopting Linux is learning a whole new set of command line utilities. You can use these Linux scripts to make the Linux command prompt respond to common DOS commands.
- Tags: Shell Script, TechRepublic Inc., DOS, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- Download resources 2004-07-16
- calling a C program in a shell script
- hi how can i call a C program in a bourne shell script please let me knowI'm assuming that the program is actually compiled. If it is actually compiled, it is just like calling any other program...As J.Ja points out, you just call it by name. In fact, much...
- Tags: C/C++, shell script, C, C program
- Q&A 2006-03-17
- calling a C program in a shell script
- hi how can i call a C program in a bourne shell script please let me know
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages
- Q&A 2006-03-17
- calling a C program in a shell script
- hi how can i call a C program in a bourne shell script please let me knowecho "about to call a C program"cprogramecho "after calling a C program"This assumes cprogram is in the $PATH. You may have to specify the path:/home/username/bin/cprogramYou might need to compile your cprogram.c first to...
- Tags: C, C program, cprogram, iyerharini@..., linux, shell script
- Q&A 2006-03-17
- Shell Script question
- Greetings all,I need a little help,I am trying to creating a series of prototypes for a program I am working on.Question:I need to record file names and archive the file names in a text file.In other words:1. Find a specific file type2. copy file name to a string3. save the...
- Tags: ${TEST, eric_7178@..., file, linux, shell script, string, Test
- Discussion threads 2005-08-16
- Network shell scripts for user removal
- I was wondering if anyone had any examples or suggestions for making a network shell script to remove user accounts from Windows 2000.Any help would be great. Thanks!!!For local accounts:NET USER username /DELETEfor domain accounts:NET USER username /DELETE /DOMAINIf you want to use VBS to delete you can use WSH...
- Tags: shell script
- Q&A 2005-05-21
- Changing multiple file names in a Windows Explorer folder
- I have a folder with maybe a couple of thousand files whose names all have certain characters I want to replace or delete (ie. for all files in this folder).Is there any way to edit these changes for all the files in single commands instead of doing renames foe each,...
- Tags: hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Explorer, shell script, techknow@...
- Discussion threads 2005-02-14
- Shell script
- 1.how to generate the following series ,1,3,2,4,3,5,4,6......1002.how to write a shell script to check if a given string is palindrome or not without reversing the string3.how to write a shell script to display the following pattern using whi
- Tags: slipknotsr@..., shell script
- Discussion threads 2004-12-17