Questions tagged [command-line-arguments]
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mwoffliner ZIM file creation issue with local MediaWiki
I installed mwoffliner 1.6.0 as per these instructions in a Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic, desktop edition). Some programs were missing and I apparently managed to install all of them.
I succeeded running the ...
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Easy access to Outlook Calendar and Inbox from 2 different accounts?
I am trying to help someone in the following situation. She has two accounts in Outlook (both in the one Profile she has). She always uses the Inbox of Account1 but the Calendar of Account2. She wants ...
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Excel command line switches - positions
I notice that when I enter :
excel /r "c:\temp1\test001.xls"
I get read only. When I enter
excel "c:\temp1\test001.xls" /r
I do not get readonly.
When I enter
excel /s "c:\temp1\test001.xls"
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sudo !! equivalent on Windows cmd
I'm looking for a cmd.exe equivalent to Linux's sudo !! and other bang-commands such as !x, !?x, !!:p and !!* mentioned here.
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“Invalid parameters” error when copying to another folder
I have tried the following to copy the files in Data to another location but received the error "invalid parameters." What is wrong with my command?
C:\xcopy c:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\...
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Pass command to WSL Ubuntu 16.04 upon opening/booting WSL ubuntu
After setting up a cron job, I am trying to: automatically enable cron service when I open the Windows Subsystem for Linux Ubuntu 16.04 app from the Windows App Store.
Currently I am trying to reach ...
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bash function with parameters not usable with eval in Msys2
I am using Msys2 from PortableApps under Win 10.
The answer to this question (i.e., identification and solution of the problem) may be related to the Unix/Linux part of usage, or to its "adaptation" ...
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Firefox custom external helper application command for Media Player Classic (MPC)
I want .m3u, .mp4, mp3 or any other media file links from Firefox to be added to Media Player Classic playlist (not played immediately).
The command line for adding to playlist looks like this: mpc-...
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How to pass multiple arguments?
How to pass multiple paramaters for Start a program action in Windows Task Scheduler for a batch file? There's no built-in syntax hint...
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Using a single malleable object containing multiple arguments for a command in a powershell script
I have a bunch of arguments that I want to pass to a command multiple times. To decrease the amount of times I write the same arguments, and thus decrease the number of places where I have to maintain ...
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Cannot use the unattend argument for Windows Server 2016 setup
I'm using en_windows_server_2016_updated_feb_2018_x64_dvd_11636692.iso to attempt remotely installing Windows Server 2016 on a Windows Server 2012 machine.
I've created an unattend.xml and ...
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using xargs pass arguments to sub shell with pipe
I want to rename a number of files. I think I can use xargs to do it.
find ./ -name "upload.log-*"
./upload.log-20180622.gz-20180624.gz-20180626.gz
./upload.log-20180624.gz-20180626.gz
./upload.log-...
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How create name value pairs array from command line arguments?
Consider example:
bash myScript.sh --name1 valule1 --name2 value2
Inside myScript.sh:
java -jar someJar. jar --name1=valule1 --name2=value2
E.g. array --name1 valule1 --name2 value2 needs to ...
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How to bring old instance of calculator on top of every other window?
I would like to open the calculator. If calculator already opened then want to bring in front of all other windows... without using any coding of hotkey.
I used the following script:
@echo off
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how to padd output of the SET /P?
I am using this simple menu in cmd where I padded my ECHOs with TAB key:
:MENU
ECHO select this by pressing 0
ECHO(
ECHO select this by pressing 1
ECHO(
SET /P ANSWER="press something:"
is ...
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how to navigate in range of parent folder without full path?
is there a way how to navigate to a program that is in different folder of the parent directory without using full path?
atm I have a batch here:
FOLDER 1\BATCHES\batch1.bat
which uses a program ...
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Is there a command line command I can use to find the number of local groups?
Is there a command line command I can use to find the number of local groups without having to count them one by one from the output of the net localgroup command? I've tried the help info for net ...
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How to launch Edge with some cmd line args?
I'm using Windows 10. According to Microsoft Edge DevTools Protocol docs, I need to launch Edge with the --devtools-server-port cmd line arg.
i tried to do so via Console, but got an error:
'...
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Wget not working as expected
wget -nd -a pdf -o drgnchain.pdf https://dragonchain.com/assets/Dragonchain_Business_Summary.pdf
I would expect the downloaded PDF to be named drgnchain.pdf and be the sole file after executing this ...
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Semantics of “Implies” on command line switches
Silly question: I thought I knew what an implication was, until looking into this. I'd like to confirm the definition of implied in the context of Windows command prompt switches. For example:
If ...
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Pass parameters to program started with Runas
I am trying to start Performance monitor as different user. I found runas.exe but syntax for program arguments makes me go crazy.
The following syntax works:
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /user:...
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Firefox ignores paramter when link is executed via Launchy
I created some links to firefox.exe which open different profiles using command line arguments. The full link targets look like "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P profile-name -no-...
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Display a Form through CMD (VB.NET)
I've built a VB.NET program that contains multiple Forms. Now I want to display a particular Form (not the main/startup form) of the program through the Command Prompt.
For example, if there are two ...
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How do I find all accepted command line arguments of an executable
I'm aware that there have already been multiple there have been multiple threads on this topic, (such as here), however there is a slight variation to this question.
The method described in the post ...
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Is there a 'Restore session' command-line argument for Firefox?
I would like to make a batch script for Firefox that restores my last session upon launching the script from a shortcut. I found that I could do this rather easily in Chrome with the --restore-last-...
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What was the Linux console command to add on one user read and exec permission, and to other them too but with writing permission too? [duplicate]
Need help for the question in topic.
I am trying to add these permissions for users on my practice project.
I forgot what was the command for it. :(
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How to give custom name to executable file formed by compiling CSharp code at command Prompt?
I am using Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2017. I have created a project HelloCSharp. My project location is:
C:\Users\Sonevol\source\repos\HelloCSharp
I go to HelloCSharp folder in which I have ...
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Filezilla v2 had “-config <file>”. What about v3?
Filezilla v2 had a command line parameter "-config " which allowed a quick way to choose alternative config files.
Does v3 have such a command line parameter too?
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Tab in bash autocompletes from path, how can I extend it to also autocomplete from .bash_history?
I love path autocompletion, but one thing I miss is that if the last time I used a command was with a long set of arguments, and I want to repeat that (without writing a script), I can't type
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Spaces in java command line argument
I've searched but still don't know how to resolve this. I am trying to setup a batch script to run this Java command:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_60\bin\"java -cp "AddDocument.jar;Jace.jar;...
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Trying to exclude a specific directory from a grep command
I've got a directory that contains hundreds of sub-directories that all have dates as their names, and inside each of those sub-directories, there's a bunch of files I need to be searching through. ...
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Opening two individual Chrome windows on different displays at startup
I have a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 Education x64 plugged into a USB dock that I use as a desktop machine in my office. I have a dual monitor setup on the dock, and use the Surface itself as a ...
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List default arguments of a linux command
I wanted to check what are default arguments for rsync.
Tried searching through man pages but did not found that.
Is there a way to get default arguments for linux command?
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REG ADD Ignores /f
My script:
@ECHO OFF
SET RegPath="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VBA\7.0\"
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit" /v LastKey /t REG_SZ /d "%RegPath%" /f
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How to set a flag as default on an *.EXE file?
When I open Sumatra I need inverted colors by default. But even though I changed the shortcuts to: "/sumatraPDF.exe" -invert-colors the program runs without the flag when I double click a PDF file at ...
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How to monitor the realtime content of a folder in commandline
Is there any way to monitor the real time content of a folder in commandline? What i need is like dir command but updates the content continuously.
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Is there a Google Chrome switch (command line) to toggle url-encoding?
I have written a C# code that calls Google Chrome to load a specific url on the computers local hard drive. The C# code already encodes the URL (replaces space characters with %20) and this used to ...
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Trapping “echo off” stty on linux terminals
I occasionally need to be extra sure that the password I type is the right one (e.g. because I already made one mistake & the next one will lock me out for 15 minutes) so I am after something like ...
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How to search and replace a string in multiple html files within a directory and it's sub-directories with Windows CMD?
This is requirement is similar to How to search and replace a string in multiple text files (within a directory) with Windows CMD? Part 2
I want to perform Find and Replace on all HTML files inside a ...
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Pass arguments to a Bash subshell after its definition
I'd like to do something like this:
(cd "$1" && pwd && many && other && commands) < echo "../path"
Which should take the arguments provided and pass them to the ...
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command for disable display scaling
I know you can disable the display scaling factor by right clicking an .exe file and then going to the Compatibility tab, but I need a way to launch and app from terminal or .bat file with either ...
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Establishing a unit converter which can be called globally through terminal
I would like to have a function (or may be some kind of executable) that can be called via Terminal from wherever I am (from any directory) and this function does a simple job of converting between ...
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bash: why use “treat all files as text” flag with the diff command?
I see a few examples when using the diff command, particularly using it recursively for checking whole directories, to use "diff -ar foo/ foo2/".
If I'm checking a bunch of mixed files (some text, ...
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How to enable “Synchronize across time zones” option with Schtasks.exe
I need to create a schedule task in 1000+ machines which should be running at the same time hence decided to use the option of "Synchronize across time zones". For deploying in these machines, I am ...
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How do I set the group and affinity of a Windows executable from the command line
I have an executable foo.exe that I need to run concurrently 6 times on a multiprocessor setup where the first 3 instances will be assigned to cores in Group 0 and the next 3 instances will be ...
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Capturing new HTTP calls
I would like to capture system calls to open (http) urls. I'm not concerned with what the browser is doing internally. Rather, what URLs are attempted to be opened by explorer, or other programs (...
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Passing arguments by the hyperlink
I have some interesting question. Is it possible somehow to pass some parameters to C# application by means of hyperlink? If it possible, how to get them in application code?
I tried to use ...
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How to run OpenOffice and pass a document to it?
I want to open xyz.txt file in Open Office Writer from Windows command line.
The manual show only the command for opening the file in read only mode. But I want to open it in Edit mode.
c:\...
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GNU ddrescue - can someone give me a good command to run in terminal?
I have a damaged hard drive with many bad sectors from my parents windows computer, attached via Sata cable to a Virtual Ubuntu (on my Windows Desktop).
i want to use ddrescue (GNU) to create a Disk ...
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Start program with standard arguments (Windows)
Is it possible for me to start a program with flags from Windows Explorer?
I want to start the Eclipse IDE with another Java Executable.
When I open eclipse.exe from Explorer it will of course run ...
