Scenario
I need to convert a folder to .dmg using objective-c however, I am not able find any script in obj-c that is why I am looking for a terminal command that can do this.
Research
I am using the given below terminal command in order to convert a folder to .dmg
hdiutil create -format UDZO -srcfolder
"/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG"
"/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG.dmg"
Problem
The above command is not working and giving no result as shown in the screenshot given below:
Please suggest a solution that can help me create a .dmg file of a folder. Many thanks for your attention.
P.S: I have to use either obj-c or terminal because I am creating an utility in cocoa app.
Using " was a mistake. I am from windows world and there (in windows) you always have to put a path into quotes "c://test.txt"
Earlier (Wrong)
hdiutil create -format UDZO -srcfolder
"/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG"
"/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG.dmg"
Correct
hdiutil create -format UDZO -srcfolder
/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG
/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG.dmg
However if you path contains spaces then if you use quotes then it will give an error like given below
Resolution
In order to escape the error you must use '\' before spaces ' ' as given below:
hdiutil create -format UDZO -srcfolder
/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG\ for\ design
/Users/Paxcel/Desktop/IMG\ for\ design.dmg
I have run both commands and the result is shown in the screen shot given below
Quoted path is not working but using '\' in path is working like a charm
You have a stray " in your command line.
The > prompt means more please; the shell wants you to terminate the ".
Related
I want to run a bat file used to compile sass to css from within a Kotlin program, on a Windows machine. I had everything working using Runtime.exec until I switched to a Windows account that had a space in the username. From what I read, I read that using ProcessBuilder would make this easier. It seems that even with ProcessBuilder I still can't get it to work, no matter what I try.
Here is my code so far
val commands = mutableListOf(
"cmd",
"/c",
"C:\\Users\\John Doe\\VCS\\test\\tools\\sass\\windows\\dart-sass\\sass.bat",
"--no-source-map",
"C:\\Users\\John Doe\\VCS\\test\\src\\main\\sass\\global.scss",
"global.css"
)
val processBuilder = ProcessBuilder(commands)
val process = processBuilder.start()
...
The error I get is 'C:\Users\John' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. It doesn't help if I surround the strings that have spaces with \".
If I remember correctly, all windows files and folders that have a space in the name have a matching short name in the old 8.3 format replacing additional space and other characters with a tilde (~) and a number.
So whatever is returning you the path for the .bat and .sscs files could return the full filename in that format?
Doesn't solve the problem but avoids it instead, I admit.
Also means you won't get busted when someone puts a space in the filename (OK, unlikely, but still something better to deal with from the start).
Consider something along the lines of the top 2 answers on this superuser thread
This is actually a Windows cmd issue. The question here shows that in cmd, in addition to quoting the file paths, you also have to quote the entire part of the command line text after the /c switch.
I don't know if this is the best way to do it in ProcessBuilder, but I was able to get it to work with the following code.
"cmd.exe",
"/c",
"\"\"C:/Users/John Doe/VCS/test/tools/sass/windows/dart-sass/sass.bat\" "
+ "--no-source-map "
+ "\"C:/Users/John Doe/VCS/test/src/main/sass/global.scss\" "
+ "\"global.css\"\""
I am a typographer working with many fonts that have incorrect or incomplete filenames. I am on a Mac and have been using Hazel, AppleScript, and Automator workflows, attempting to automate renaming these files*. I require a script to replace the existing filename of ttf, woff, or woff2 files in Finder with the font's postscriptName. I know of tools (fc-scan/fontconfig, TTX, etc) which can retrieve the PostScript name-values I require, but lack the programming knowhow to code a script for my purposes. I've only managed to setup a watched directory that can run a script when any files matching certain parameters are added.
*To clarify, I am talking about changing the filename only, not the actual names stored within the font. Also I am open to a script of any compatible language or workflow of scripts if possible, e.g. this post references embedding AppleScript within Shell scripts via osascript.
StackExchange Posts I've Consulted:
How to get Fontname from OTF or TTF File?
How to get PostScript name of TTF font in OS X?
How to Change Name of Font?
Automate Renaming Files in macOS
Others:
https://github.com/dtinth/JXA-Cookbook/wiki/Using-JavaScript-for-Automation
https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools
https://github.com/devongovett/fontkit
https://www.npmjs.com/package/rename-js
https://opentype.js.org/font-inspector.html
http://www.fontgeek.net/blog/?p=343
https://www.lantean.co/osx-renaming-fonts-for-free
Edit: Added the following by request.
1) Screenshot of a somewhat typical webfont, illustrating how the form fields for font family and style names are often incomplete, blank, or contain illegal characters.
2) The woff file depicted (also, as base64).
Thank you all in advance!
Since you mentioned Automator in your question, I thought I'd try and solve this while using that to rename the file, along with standard Mac bash to get the font name. Hopefully, it beats learning a whole programming language.
I don't know what your workflow is so I'll leave any deviations to you but here is a method to select a font file and from Services, rename the file to the font's postscript name… based on Apple's metadata, specifically "com_apple_ats_name_postscript". This is one of the pieces of data retrieved using 'mdls' from the Terminal on the font file. To focus on the postscript name, grep the output for name_postscript. For simplicity here, I'll exclude the path to the selected file.
Font Name Aquisition
So… running this command…
mdls GenBkBasBI.ttf | grep -A1 name_postscript
… generates this output, which contains FontBook's Postscript name. The 'A1' in grep returns the found line and the first line after, which is the one containing the actual font name.
com_apple_ats_name_postscript = (
"GentiumBookBasic-BoldItalic"
Clean this up with some more bash (tr, tail)…
tr -d \ | tail -n 1 | tr -d \"
In order, these strip spaces, all lines excepting the last, and quotation marks. So for the first 'tr' instance, there is an extra space after the backslash.
In a single line, it looks like this…
mdls GenBkBasBI.ttf | grep -A1 name_postscript | tr -d \ | tail -n 1 | tr -d \"
…and produces this…
GentiumBookBasic-BoldItalic
Now, here is the workflow that includes the above bash command. I got the idea for variable usage from the answer to this question…
Apple Automator “New PDF from Images” maintaining same filename
Automator Workflow
Automator Workflow screenshot
At the top; Service receives selected 'files or folders' in 'Finder'.
Get Selected Finder Items
This (or Get Specified…) is there to allow testing. It is obviated by using this as a Service.
Set Value of Variable (File)
This is to remember which file you want to rename
Run Shell Script
This is where we use the bash stuff. The $f is the selected/specified file. I'm running 'zsh' for whatever reason. You can set it to whatever you're running, presumably 'bash'.
Set Value of Variable (Text)
Assign the bash output to a variable. This will be used by the last action for the new filename.
Get Value of Variable (File)
Recall the specified/selected file to rename.
Rename Finder Items: Name Single Item
I have it set to 'Basename only' so it will leave the extension alone. Enter the 'Text' variable from action 4 in here.
By default, IntelliJ Idea will insert (something like) the following as the header of a new source file:
/**
* Created by JohnDoe on 2016-04-27.
*/
The corresponding template is:
/**
* Created by ${USER} on ${DATE}.
*/
Is it possible to update this template so that it inserts the last date of modification when the file is changed? For example:
/**
* Created by JohnDoe on 2016-03-27.
* Last modified by JaneDoe on 2016-04-27
*/
It is not supported out of the box. I suggest you do not include information about author and last edit/create time in file at all.
The reason is that your version control system (Git, SVN) contains the same information automatically. So the manual labelling is just duplicate of already existing info, but is only more error prone and needs to be manually updated.
Here's a working solution similar to what I'm using. Tested on mac os.
Create a bash script which will replace first occurrence of Last modified by JaneDoe on $DATE only if the exact value is not contained in the file:
#!/bin/bash
FILE=src/java/test/Test.java
DATE=`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`
PREFIX="Last modified by JaneDoe on "
STRING="$PREFIX.*$"
SUBSTITUTE="$PREFIX$DATE"
if ! grep -q "$SUBSTITUTE" "$FILE"; then
sed -i '' "1,/$(echo "$STRING")/ s/$(echo "$STRING")/$(echo "$SUBSTITUTE")/" $FILE
fi
Install File Watchers plugin.
Create a file watcher with appropriate scope (it may be this single file or any other scope, so that any change in project's source code will update modified date or version etc.) and put a path to your bash script into Program field.
Now every time the file changes the date will update. If you want to update date for each file separately, an argument $FilePath$ should be passed to the script.
This might have been just a comment to #oleg-mikhailov excellent idea, but the code snippet won't fit. Basically, I just tweaked his solution.
I needed a slightly different syntax but that's not the issue. The issue was that when the script ran automatically upon file save using the File Watchers plugin, if ran on a file which doesn't include PREFIX it would run over and over for ever.
I presume the that the issue is with the plugin itself, as it didn't happen when run from the shell, but I'm not sure why it happened.
Anyway, I ended up running the following script (as I said only a slight change with respect to the original). The new script also raises an error if the the prefix doesn't exist. For me this is a feature as Pycharm prompts me with the error, and I can fix the file.
Tested with PyCharm 2021.2.3 on macOS 11.6.
#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
DATE=`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`
PREFIX="last_modified_date: "
STRING="$PREFIX.*$"
SUBSTITUTE="$PREFIX$DATE"
if ! grep -q "$SUBSTITUTE" "$FILE"; then
if grep -q "$PREFIX" "$FILE"; then
sed -i '' "s/$(echo "$STRING")/$(echo "$SUBSTITUTE")/" $FILE
else
echo "Error!"
echo "'$PREFIX' doesn't appear in $FILE"
exit 1
fi
fi
PHPStorm has not a "hook" for launching task after detect a change in file (just for uploading in server yes). Code templating is based on the creation of file not change.
The behaviour you want (automatic change file after manual change file) can be useful for lot of things but it's circular headhache for editor. Because if you change a file it must change file (and if a file is change ? it change file ?).
However, You can, perhaps, "enable Live Templates" when you launch a "reformat code" which able to rewrite your begin template code that way rewrite date modification.
Other solution is that use a tools with as grunt but I don't know if manage php file.
I am writing a package using the GNU build system. The documentation hence is in the texinfo format. As a result, executing make converts the texinfo file into the info format, and executing make pdf automatically produces a pdf file.
In the texinfo file, I have something like this:
#verbatim
awk '{...}' data.txt
#end verbatim
However, in the pdf, the "basic" single quotes (U+0027) in the awk command above are transformed into "curvy" single quotes (U+2019) so that, if one does a copy-paste of the command from the pdf into a terminal, bash complains ("syntax error"). This forces the user to edit the command he just copy-pasted. Same problem occurs if I replace #verbatim by #example. I searched the texinfo manual but couldn't find a way to specify apostrophes. I am using texinfo version 5.2.
Karl Berry (via the bug-texinfo mailing list) told me to add 2 lines to my texi file (more info):
#codequoteundirected on
#codequotebacktick on
as well as add the latest version of texinfo.tex to my package.
Is there any app for mac to split sql files or even script?
I have a large files which i have to upload it to hosting that doesn't support files over 8 MB.
*I don't have SSH access
You can use this : http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump/
Or
Use this command to split the sql file
split -l 5000 ./path/to/mysqldump.sql ./mysqldump/dbpart-
The split command takes a file and breaks it into multiple files. The -l 5000 part tells it to split the file every five thousand lines. The next bit is the path to your file, and the next part is the path you want to save the output to. Files will be saved as whatever filename you specify (e.g. “dbpart-”) with an alphabetical letter combination appended.
Now you should be able to import your files one at a time through phpMyAdmin without issue.
More info http://www.webmaster-source.com/2011/09/26/how-to-import-a-very-large-sql-dump-with-phpmyadmin/
This tool should do the trick: MySQLDumpSplitter
It's free and open source.
Unlike the accepted answer to this question, this app will always keep extended inserts intact so the precise form of your query doesn't matter; the resulting files will always have valid SQL syntax.
Full disclosure: I am a share holder of the company that hosts this program.
The UploadDir feature in phpMyAdmin could help you, if you have FTP access and can modify your phpMyAdmin's configuration (or are allowed to install your own instance of phpMyAdmin).
http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/config.html?highlight=uploaddir#cfg_UploadDir
You can split into working SQL statements with:
csplit -s -f db-part db.sql "/^# Dump of table/" "{99}"
Which makes up to 99 files named 'db-part[n]' from db.sql
You can use "CREATE TABLE" or "INSERT INTO" instead of "# Dump of ..."
Also: Avoid installing any programs or uploading your data into any online service. You don't know what will be done with your information!