In my vb.net command line script, I have written a few functions. I want to direct the output of these functions, both errors and general logs, into a log file.
I was hoping to make my log file declaration as global, so that I don't have to open and close my log file in every function. (I don't want to declare it every where).
Looking for an efficient way of achieving this.
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So I'm doing a GRETL script where the users writes his Operating System (Windows/Linux), his path to a gretl workdir and the .gdt file to open (saved from a previous exercise).
This passes on string variables. One of such variables is gdt_file which before opening should be /path/to/file/file.gdt
Now, reading GRETL documentation, the open command will by default look for file.gdt inside the $workdir.
Now, what I want to do is open gdt_file, but of course it doesn't work because it's looking for gdt_file.gdt inside $workdir, instead of open /path/to/file/file.gdt
I've played a bit with it, but I'm unable to find a workaround, IDK if this is even possible, the documentation isn't very clarifying.
Thank you for your time.
here's the thread with the reply from the Gretl team, in case anyone is wondering: https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/bugs/247/
Basically, use command "#variable" as in string substitution in the gretl guide.
I have a single command line windows executable that has many options built into this exe file.
Eg:
(It can take screenshot)
ToolGo.exe printscreen c:\temp\filename.jpg yyyymmdd
(It can show up)
ToolGo.exe showIP machineA
I want to write another command line application, possibly in .net , where it can embed/build a wrapper around this ToolGo.exe file into my application without the user be able to use the ToolGo.exe, and also users can only access one function of this main exe file.
In the example I want this other tool to access only the print screen function in this new exe file.
The new application will have this:
Tool2go.exe printscreen c:\temp\filename.jpg yyyymmdd
But if someone types the following, it will not work:
Tool2go.exe showIP machineA
Or
ToolGo.exe showIP machineA
Any ideas how I can write this code to do this in a .net command line application?
This is a multi-part question, so I'll just give the main part of the issue as the answer with suggestions on handling the rest.
You can embed a .exe into your program by clicking on Properties and navigating the the Resources section, and adding that .exe to it.
After that, it's just a matter of extracting it locally so you can pass your commands to it, and handle it's responses. (I'm not really aware of any way to do so w/out first extracting the. exe; the .exe itself needs to run somehow after all).
To extract the embedded .exe, you do this:
' Extract the MyProgram resource (i.e. your .exe)
Dim b() As Byte = My.Resources.MyProgram
' Write it to the user's Temp folder
File.WriteAllBytes(Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%TEMP%\MyProgram.exe"), b)
By extracting it to the user's Temp folder, you can pass it your commands, and since it's 'out of sight' the user probably won't even know it's there to directly use it themselves, unless they're a bit more advanced and visit their Temp folder often. You can slightly help to avoid this, but extracting the .exe when your program starts, and then deleting it when it exits, so it only exists on the user's system while your program is running.
As far as what the user can and cannot type in order to pass to the program, you can simply handle the filtering with your program; since your program is the one passing the commands to the .exe, just don't pass any commands that you don't allowed, and pass the ones you do want allowed.
Okay, I'll try to explain as good as I can... Quite a particular case.
Tools: SSIS 2008
We have a control flow that now needs to be triggered by an event: the presence of one or multiple files. (1,2 or 3)
The variables used:
BO_FileLocation_1
BO_FileLocation_2
BO_FileLocation_3
BO_FileName_1
BO_FileName_2
BO_FileName_3
There can be one, two or three files: defined in above variables. When they are filled in,
they should be processed. When they are empty, this means there's just one file file, the process should ignore them and jump to the next (file watcher?) task.
For example:
BO_FileLocation_1= "C:\"
BO_FileLocation_2 NULL
BO_FileLocation_3 NULL
BO_FileName_1= "test.csv"
BO_FileName_2 NULL
BO_FileName_3 NULL
The report only needs one file.
I'd need a generic concept that checks the presence of these files, it could be more generic than my SSIS knowledge can handle right now. For example handy, when there's a 4th file in the future. I was also thinking to work with a single script to handle all the logic.
Thanks in advance
A possibly irrelevant image:
If all you want is to trigger the Copy Source File to handle if one or more of the files is present, just use the OR Constraint in your flow. The following image shows you how:
First connect all to the destination:
Then click one of the green arrows. This will make its properties window pop up. Select the Logical ORinstead of the Logical AND:
If everything went well, you should now see the connections as dashed lines:
There are several possible solutions:
Create a sequence container and include all the file imports in the sequence container. Add int variables for RowCountFile1, RowCountFile2, and RowCountFile3 and set the value to 0 (this is the default value when you create an int variable). Add a RowCount transformation to each of the data flows. Create a precedence constraint from the sequence container to the "Do something" task. Set the precedence constraint to success and expression. Set the expression value to #RowCountFile1 > 0 || #RowCountFile2 > 0 || #RowCountFile3 > 0. The advantage of this approach is that you can take an action as soon as the files are detected, you import all available files, and you only take an action after all the files have been imported. You could then schedule running this SSIS package as a SQL Server Agent job step and run it as frequently as you want.
A variant on solution 1 is to use for each file enumerator containers inside the sequence container. This would be useful if you don't know the exact name of the file and you expect to import more than one under some circumstances. For instance, if you get a file every few minutes with a timestamp in its file name and your process doesn't run for some reason, then you may have to process multiple files to get caught up and then take an action once it has been done.
You could use the file watcher task as you outlined in your question. The only problem I have with the file watcher task is that the package has to be in a constantly running state. This makes it hard to troubleshoot problems and performance. It also can introduce other problems since I remember having some problems with the file watcher task years ago when it first came out. It may well be a totally stable task now, but I prefer other methods over the task after having been burned previously. If you really want the package to run continously instead of having it be called by a job, then you could always use a script task to check for file, sleep thread if not found, check again, etc. I'm sure that's what the file watcher task does, but I would trust my own C# over the task. Power to anyone who has had better experiences than me with File Watcher...
Use PowerShell. If you just want to take an action if a file appears and you aren't importing the data, then a PowerShell script could do this just as well as a SSIS package. The drawback is that you have to learn some basic PowerShell, it may be hard to maintain in the future since PowerShell is probably not your bread and butter core language, and you may have to rewrite the code again to a SSIS package if you want to import the data. You would probably call the PowerShell script from a SQL Server Agent job step, so scheduling can be handled pretty easily.
There are more options than what I listed, so let me know if you still want more suggestions.
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tried various Google searches but nothing seemed to solve my problem.
Basically I'm working for a company who need me to work with their in place database and extract the various data need for reports. They are using Sqlite (please, I've heard enough comments about how it might not be the best choice for a DB, so leave them out) and I either want all my activity on Windows command prompt to be logged, or at least everything I do from the Sqlite command line to appear in a .txt, just in case I need to refer back to it later.
Can anybody here explain to me how to do this? I'm a bit of a beginner and need this stuff broken down step by step. Not done anything like this before.
Cheers!
I'm reasonably certain you can't do this directly -- i.e., the Windows command prompt doesn't provide a way to log the input you provide to it. You can capture outputs (e.g., from commands you run), but for your purposes that's probably not adequate.
You probably need to create a "shell" of your own that takes inputs from the user, logs each one, sends it on to the command prompt, captures the output from the command prompt, and logs that as well.
In an answer to a previous question, I posted some code that handles most of what you need to do. The big difference is that you'll want to look in its handle_output (for example) and instead of just displaying the captured output to the console, write it to a file as well. As it stands right now, that example redirects the child's standard input to come from a file, but changing it to read from the console instead should be fairly straightforward -- you'll basically use a function about like the handle_output and handle_error that it already includes, but instead of displaying output, you'll read input from the user, and each line you'll 1) write to the log, and 2) send to the child via anonymous pipe (much like handle_output and handle_error read from anonymous pipes).
I have a .bat file shown below in which I want to redirect the whole contents present in my IDE to some text file.
D:\WindRiver\wrenv.exe -p vxworks653-2.2.3 run
D:\WindRiver\wrenv.exe -p vxworks653-2.2.3>C:\ThreePartition\output.txt
PAUSE
I am able to just get some partial output i.e I am unable to get the errors which are thrown during compilation or building process.
Is this correct or Can anyone suggest any other way??
Thanks a lot
Maddy
You can try this:
D:\WindRiver\wrenv.exe -p vxworks653-2.2.3 > C:\ThreePartition\output.txt 2>&1
You can find a good explanation here. Basically you need to redirect both stdout AND stderr to your file.
Best regards.
Your batch is redirecting all messages from wrenv.exe that are sent to the standard output.
I never used WinRiver but usually IDEs manage the console internally and don't log any messages on the standard output/error stream.
It is maybe possible to set the output of the console of the IDE though. If it is, try to set it to the standard output.
I think you want to combine both those lines into one:
D:\WindRiver\wrenv.exe -p vxworks653-2.2.3 run >C:\ThreePartition\output.txt
OK, looking at your posts here, here and here, it seems you want to log the compilation process. The command for that will be something like (all on one line):
make ThreePartition.mak >C:\ThreePartition\output.txt
Assuming there's a file called ThreePartition.mak.
The command you've been using so far is designed to simply open an interface where you can type commands, which is why you get no output. If you want to log simulation, or a kernel build, there is a file called vxworks_cli_tools_users_guide_6.6.pdf which describes the command line interface, including vxprj in full detail.
Also, are you really using a nant script to call a .vbs to call a .bat to call wrenv.exe? I'm sure there's a simpler way to do that.