Schedule Auto Re-Boot of Windows Server 2008 R2
Possibly the shutdown command from a Command Prompt? shutdown -r -f -t 10 Where: -r restarts -f forces processes to terminate -t 10 … Read more
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How can I take hundreds of smaller images and create one big tiled image?
Try ImageMagick, a command-line image editor. Its montage command can help you tile your images together. For more info about montage: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/ http://www.imagemagick.org/script/montage.php … Read more
How can I launch multiple screen sessions from a single bash script?
I ended up taking this question to StackOverflow, where Brian Gerard answered the question. The {0..5} loop syntax is bash (3.x+) specific. By … Read more
What scripting/programming languages are default on Mac OSX?
OS X doesn’t come with any compilers built-in. It has a number of scripting languages though: Python (2.7.2) Perl (5.12.4) Ruby (1.8.7p358) PHP … Read more
Run a batch command for every file in a directory
The easiest way is by far to simply run a for loop over all the files. The good thing is that the set … Read more
How do I concatenate strings from a list in a bash script?
Use conditional parameter expansion: List=”A B C D” for I in $List do OUT=${OUT:+$OUT }-$I done The expression ${OUT:+$OUT } expands to nothing … Read more
Playback random section from multiple videos changing every 5 minutes
After not getting an answer in time (should have posted this a week earlier), I ended up diving into automating VLC. I found … Read more
How can I generate Pi to a given number of decimal places from a script?
Assuming you have the bc (Basic Calculator) utility on your system, you could use the following command and a bit of good old … Read more
OpenVPN –up script – “could not execute external program”
I ran into the same issue, luckily I found a solution. Here are things I checked: permission of folder permission of openvpn to … Read more
How do I make a script run upon startup of the Ubuntu machine?
Simple way You can add this script into /etc/rc.local file (before exit line), e.g. /home/myuser/go.py & Where & at the end will run … Read more
