Scripting is a form of programming generally characterized by low formality, loose typing, and no requirement for explicit compilation. There are numerous scripting languages, and these are used in a wide variety of scenarios - command-line applications, GUIs, server-side applications, extension ...
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Bash Script(beginner) - Code Improvement Suggestions
I am writing a simple script to automate my regression testing. I am new to bash scripting and my goal is achieve the most efficient and clean code. I have written a simple function to allow me to ...
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Renaming Files and/or Directory
I'm quite new to Python and would love to gather feedback on my code. I've written a piece a script that allows me to search all file or directory names within a folder matching a particular pattern. ...
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Power Shell Zip a Directory
Brand new to Power Shell, writing some utilities for non-devers. The function below zips a directory using 7Zip. It works just fine, but I'm looking for some feedback on the use of Power Shell. Are ...
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Shell Script to Sync Dotfiles Repository
I'm doing the git dot files thing and created a script -- my first Unix shell script -- to synchronise the repo dot files with those in the user's home. It checks which dot files exist in the repo ...
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Creating a basic secure php mailer
I am busy creating a basic php mailer script to post to _self and email to a address.
Is the script secure?
How can I avoid someone clicking on submit the whole time, to spam the mailbox, with ...
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Powershell Script for Manipulating Excel Files
I am a newbie at scripting so be easy. I have a directory of xls workbooks with the following naming convention:
001.WIP Monthly Report
002.WIP Joes Custom Report
...
129.PUR Supplier Spend
The ...
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How to improve the way I handle greping in this script
What my script does is:
Append data to a file on a continuous basis.
If an error pattern is observed, then do something.
I need feedback on the way I am grepping for patterns in the continuously ...
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Parsing Oracle errors with a ksh function
Some time ago I wrote a small routine to run some quick n' dirty queries (and with that I mean it is not used for large queries) against an Oracle DB, but also wanted to do it a bit easier to parse ...
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Twitter scanner
How can I script this in a better way?
// Tweets
$twitter_username_string = "aasampat OR ashwinsampat OR somemore";
$twitter_number_of_tweets = 1;
$twitter_hashtags = ...
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New to PHP, can I script this in a better way?
How can I code this in a better way, in one file? Output must be more than one (if there is more that one status_update with the given word "online or performancedegradation"),like:
#online
System is ...
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Can you help me troubleshoot this code? [closed]
I am working with this bash script but get unexpected results:
#!/bin/bash
trap 'get_window_size' WINCH # trap when a user has resized the window
_UNDERLINE_ON=`tput smul` ...
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Massive story solver to result applescript
I'm having a difficult time creating functions. I can't really encapsulate code because it's used all over the place, and needs to be refactored. However, this is a complete rewrite from my old ...
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bash script for printer administration
#!/bin/bash
# Used to add/remove printers from system (lp)
# Copyright Fresh Computer Systems Pty Ltd.
GREP_OPTIONS='--color=tty'
export GREP_OPTIONS
sanity() {
# Are we root?
if [ $EUID ...
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How can I make this password search more inteligent?
In a homework, there is exercice when I have a script that is used to search a password.
One of the questions is if is possible to make it "more inteligent", and I'm stuck on it.
The script:
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Javascript-generated Social Media Links - a more valid, improved way of writing this?
I'm still fairly new with Javascript, and wrote something to generate some social media links on my page. The idea was to have that script grab the necessary URL info and feed it to the social media ...
