I'm trying to write a Maya MEL batch script involving a texture bake operation, followed by a file save operation. This is all placed in a for loop.
The script works if executed line by line. But in a loop, what is happening is, it seems the bake is taking too long, so the file that is expected to be generated (testComp.000I.iff, where I is the frame #) is not present by the time the file save operation executes. So the script doesn't work actually.
How do you force Maya to WAIT until the previous command completes, before trying to execute the next line?
A MEL script does wait until the previous command completes.
The only exception to this rule is when a mel script generates ANOTHER mel command, as is the case with the MEL bake command, convertLightmapSetup. convertLightmapSetup spawns a call to convertLightmap as it runs, and that call does not block.
So you have to call convertLightmap directly, for your script to block.
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I have a code of more than 400 lines, and it takes a long time to run it. I'm at the stage of debugging and was wondering whther its possible to just run only a display command in a particular line? I mean like the option we have in PyCharm that we jsut press shift+enter at the desired line and it'll execute only that line.
Thanks
Short answer: No, you can not run just a single line (unless it is the first one).
Little longer, some way that could still be useful to save some time while debugging:
You could add $exit to run just the lines before that and skip the rest of your model.
If you have "static code" that takes some time at the start before you have other code that is work in progress and you want to save the time for the first part, you can use the "Save and Restart" facility of GAMS (see https://www.gams.com/41/docs/UG_SaveRestart.html). For this, you split the model in parts, lets say, the first part will be saved in longPrep.gms, the second part is wip.gms.
Then, you run gams longPrep.gms s=prep, which will generate a save file prep which will be your starting point for your second part by running gams wip.gms r=prep.
I'm currently looking for a way to execute iverilog in in Yosys, to be more exact at the write_verilog step.
I need to feed iverilog the file, which will be generated by write_verilog (reason is, I need to uphold the variable source information, which are kept in the yosys attributes).
However the execute() function only writes into the file upon function end.
If I were to call iverlog testbench.v design.v with design.v being the file which is generated through write_verilog, I get an error, telling me it's missing modules.
Is it possible to carry out commands, that depend on the file which is generated after execute() has run through, while still being in the verilog backend?
You could use a script instead, to run iverilog after write_verilog, inside a Yosys script a line beginning ! is passed to the shell:
write_verilog design.v
!iverilog testbench.v design.v
I have a ssis package that has a foreach loop container. I am trying to use .bat file within the foreach loop container using execute Process task. How do I configure my Execute Process task to pass the value into my .bat file?
Here is my sequence:
Execute sql task (passing my variable into the foreach)--> Foreach loop container----> Execute Process Task (I need help with executables, arguments....)
Create 2 variables in your SSIS package.
The first one would have the FileName along with the entire path.
The other variable will have its property 'Evaluate As Expression' set to TRUE and set its Expression to the following -
"local:" + #[System::FilePathVariable] + " -d HDMS:/To_HDMS/"
As soon as the second variable is referenced in your SSIS package, its expression (the one written above) would execute.
Say the FilePathVariable had the value "D:\Folder1\Folder2\FileName"; so, the value of the second variable after its expression is evaluated would be "local:D:\Folder1\Folder2\FileName -d HDMS:/To_HDMS/"
You need to pass this as an argument to your batch file. This would be done as explained in my previous post above.
In your batch file, have the command as -
C:
cd \Program Files\WS_FTP Pro\
wsftppro -s %1
Please try and let us know in case it doesn't work for you.
I am trying a bit of experiments with airmon-ng script in Linux. Meanwhile i want to redirect output of a process "airodump-ng mon0" to a file. I can see the instantaneous output on the screen. The feature of this process is that it won't stop execution(actually it is a script to scan for AP and clients, it will keep on scanning) unless we use ctrl+c.
Whenever i try
airodump-ng mon0 > file.txt
i won't get the output in the file.
My primary assumption is that the shell will write it to the file only after completing the execution. But in the above case i stopped the execution(as the execution won't complete).
So to generalize i can't pipe the output of a running process to a file. How can i do that?
Or is there any alternative way to stop the execution of the process(for example after 5 seconds) and redirect the current output to a file?
A process may send output to standard output or standard error to get it to the terminal. Generally, the former is for information and the latter for errors, but in some cases, a process may mix them up.
I'm supposing that in your case, the standard error is being used. To get both of these to the output file, you can use:
airmon-ng mon0 > file.txt 2>&1
This says to send standard output to file.txt and to reroute 2 (which is the file id for standard error) into 1 (the file id for standard output) so that it also goes to the file.
I was originally trying to run an executable (tftpd32.exe) from Expect with the following command, but for some unknown reason it would hanged the entire script:
exec c:/tftpd32.351/tftpd32.exe
So, decided to call a batch file that will start the executable.
I tried to call the batch file with the following command, but get an error message stating windows cannot find the file.
exec c:/tftpd32.351/start_tftp.bat
I also tried the following, but it does not start the executable:
spwan cmd.exe /c c:/tftpd32.351/start_tftp.bat
The batch file contains this and it run ok when I double click on it:
start tftpd32.exe
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
The right way to run that program from Tcl is to do:
set tftpd "c:/tftpd32.351/tftpd32.exe"
exec {*}[auto_execok start] "" [file nativename $tftpd]
Note that you should always have that extra empty argument when using start (due to the weird way that start works; it has an optional string in quotes that specifies the window title to create, but it tends to misinterpret the first quoted string as that even if that leaves it with no mandatory arguments) and you need to use the native system name of the executable to run, hence the file nativename.
If you've got an older version of Tcl inside your expect program (8.4 or before) you'd do this instead:
set tftpd "c:/tftpd32.351/tftpd32.exe"
eval exec [auto_execok start] [list "" [file nativename $tftpd]]
The list command in that weird eval exec construction adds some necessary quoting that you'd have trouble generating otherwise. Use it exactly as above or you'll get very strange errors. (Or upgrade to something where you don't need nearly as much code gymnastics; the {*} syntax was added for a good reason!)