I needed a script to backup a workfolder to a Windows network server. I wrote this perl script that can be triggered using cron. First create a mount point. I used /smb/public. So to do so in two steps, mkdir /smb, then mkdir /smb/public. I put my scripts in ~/bin. Put this perl script below […]
I have been wanting a way to carry my passwords around with me. I purchased a USB card. The next step was to find a way to easily manage the passwords on the disk. After much searching, I found a java application, that has been written to work nicely with Mac OS X. It is […]
I use cpan to install perl modules all the time. I recently installed Perl LWP. Unfortunately the install replaces and important text command file in /usr/bin. The file head was replaced by LWP head and this has caused some problems on my system. I found it out when I tried to install Sun’s Netbeans IDE […]
I had a very large folder of images that I needed to build a tale of, as well as links for the images. I wrote a perl script to read the directory and build the table based upon the image file names in the folder. For our purposes here I am simplifying the script.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Copy;
my […]
Well, I implemented my bradrice.com front page to a drupal driven site. Please check it out. Drupal seems to live perfectly fine with any other pages you are serving or software living in the root folder. I decided for sanity sake to install it in a drupal folder and redirect to it. That way I […]
May seem simple to most folks, but just in case you are looking for an expression to remove the path before a file name here is an expression to start.
[\w/]*/
It searches for all the word characters before the last slash. If you need periods in the path add those to the character class.
I just updated my LAMP (Apache, MySql and PHP). I found that PHP installation can become problematic with MySql 5. Apparently the mac binary doesn’t include shared libraries. PHP fails when you build it against mysql. So I googled and found this excellent resource for helping you step through the installations. Start with Mysql and […]
I found a good way to make use of a scalar reference in perl. For development when you are using a dev and live server, you can change some settings using a ref.
Here’s what I did recently. In this case I needed two different mount scripts, one for a dev server and one for a […]
One thing nice about Mac OS X are the avenues for development. There is Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, C, Objective C, java, javascript, applescript and shell, just to name some of the possibliities. One of the things I have always wanted to be able to do, was to write .asp and test it on Mac […]
A while back I wrote a post about a ftp shell script. A number of people told me I should use curl instead. Here is one I wrote using both perl and curl to move some files from a site. I start with a list of file names. They don’t have the .pdf extension in […]
Javascript has come a long ways. The Mozilla project has released a couple of tools for javascript writers. I recently added the capability to my Mac of being able to write javascript then run and debug it from the command line, just like I would a perl script. Rhino is a java tool that will […]
I run into the situation of having to rename so often that I am constantly tweaking my solution. Here I had to remove some extraneous characters on file names that a client had added. All we wanted where the first characters that started with DSFC and then the 4 digits. I had to drop off […]
I have several handy applications that I use on my mac daily. Obviously a mail app and browser. Safari is very nice. I’m using Apple Mail, but Thunderbird is really a nice mail app, too. But for me, much of the business of computing is storing information, and being able to get to that information […]
Recently I wrote about getting Tomcat running in Mac OS X. You can easily start it up manually anytime you want by running the startup script in /Library/Tomcat/bin after you have it installed. But if you want it or any other daemon to run at startup you can use launchd if you are running Tiger. […]
I’ve recently made the foray into AJAX. I purchased the Apress book “Foundations of AJAX.” When I went to download the source code that went with the book it required me to have tomcat running to view it using a java servlett. I decided to install Tomcat. It was simple, but it wasn’t simple […]
I have occasion to look for various text inside of files in a directory. Grep is great for that. To look for some text in a whole directory of files you can type on the command line grep matchtext *.txt. That will pull up the files with the matched text and print it out on […]
Do you ever need to move a bunch of files to a specific location? Or do you want to backup certain files and need a nice method for moving them to a second drive or location? This following script can be helpful. You can re-write it for your particular purpose. I originally wrote it to […]
I’ve been asked this a couple of times, so I’m revisiting this topic (see post 50). I didn’t think it would have been too common for people to want to restart classic from a script, but apparently there are some. If this doesn’t interest you, at least you might want to take a peek at […]
If you ever need to compare two directories to find files missing from one that are in the other, perl can be a good utility to use. You can read into two arrays two directories, then create a hash using the second directory array as keys (this should be the smaller directory). Then use the […]
I’ve revised a previous tip here with regard to setting up your mac to server virtual hosts to use your mac for development of sites. I find this to be a little easier than using 127.0.0.1 as your virtual host. Instead find the virtual host portion (usually at the bottom) of your httpd.conf file which […]
