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How to open files from cygwin into Visual Studio

James Young — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:02:03 +0000

Had the desire to open files from the command line (a cygwin terminal, mintty, to be specific) into my existing session of Visual Studio 2008. Here is what you can do.

Adjust paths as necessary. Put this in your bash profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 9.0/Common7/IDE/
alias devedit="devenv \$1 /edit"

Now, this gives you two tools. Well, one, but two will be available on the command line.

The main tool you now have is devenv, which allows you to do all sorts of things. type devenv /? to see all the things you can do with it.

We are interested in devenv filename /edit. I would prefer to just type the filename, and not need to type /edit everytime. The alias devedit takes care of this for us. So, you can do devenv whatever to have access to all the features that tool gives you, and you can do devedit filename to quickly open up the file in your existing Visual Studio session. If there is no session running, it will start one up.

How to open a window from terminal in cygwin on vista

James Young — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:42:11 +0000

So I got a new Dell through work with Vista installed. Naturally one of the first things I did was install cygwin so I can use mintty. This gives me a decent terminal on widnows. If you don’t know what those are, I encourage you to give them a shot.

Anyway, having used a mac forever, I found myself missing the ‘open’ command that you can do from Terminal (on the mac) to pop open a window from the directory you are in.

With a quick search, I found that someone else already figured this out, so I am going to post my version of it here:

In your .bash_profile, add this:

alias open="cygstart \$1"

Then in mintty (or any cygwin terminal) you can cd to where ever you want, then just do ‘open [path]‘ and it will pop open a windows window for [path].

Examples:

open current directory: $ open .
open home directory : $ open ~
open program files: $ open ~/c/Program\ Files

Note: that last one assumes you have made a symlink in your home to /cygdrive/c/

$ cd ~; ln -s /cygdrive/c

Here is the original thread that I found this tip in:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00632.html

There are a few solutions posted, my favorite is:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00635.html

Protecting Apache Served Directories

James Young — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:22:05 +0000

Surprised I haven’t written this up before now. It is very simple to do.

This assumes you are using apache on a unix based system. This should work on any OS running apache though.

In the directory you want to restrict create a file named .htaccess that contains the following:
```
AuthType Basic
AuthName "RESTRICTED ACCESS"
AuthUserFile /home3/speedtow/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
```
- Note: AuthName can be anything you want it to say and AuthUserFile must be an absolute path to the .htpasswd file. It can be anywhere, I wouldn’t recommend putting it in the directory you are restricting though, or any apache served directory for that matter.
Create the .htpasswd file by running htpasswd in the location you want it to live. It will go something like this:
```
$ htpasswd -c .htpasswd username
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user username
```

Thats it, your done.

svn: Get Changes Since Revision x

James Young — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:47:00 +0000

Example, getting all changes since r260, followed by all changes except deleted files.

svn log -v -r 260:HEAD | grep '^[ ]\{3\}'
svn log -v -r 260:HEAD | grep '^[ ]\{3\}' | grep -v '^   D' | cut -f3- -d/ | perl -ne 'if(/(.*)\/.*$/){print $1."\n";}' | sort | uniq

command line reporting

James Young — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:52:53 +0000

Here are some things I have done in the past to pull data out of log files. I find myself referring to this list from time to time to remember how I did things in the past.

Real Queries That May Need To Be Repeated
 
ATT YIH upgrades in the month of 200709
$ listysftclog 200709* | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/(yihupg[^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sort -r | uniq -c
 
Scratch Work
These searches are mostly captures in cronjobs and shell scripts. Using this page as a place to store some of them while working them out.
 
Misc Searches
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/beacon.choice~([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sed 's/&/\&/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 
Get page views for att/v4 choice page
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | grep choice.php | grep result~200 | wc -l
 
Get uniq visits to choice page
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | grep result~200 | cut -f10 -d\| | sort | uniq | wc -l
 
Get all user agents
This still needs some work, there is a ^D in there that needs to be removed
$ cat /home/y/logs/ysftc/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/choiceua([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 
Get Windows users
$ cat /home/y/logs/ysftc/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/choiceua([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | grep Windows | wc -l
 
Get Mac users
$ cat /home/y/logs/ysftc/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/choiceua([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | grep Mac | wc -l
 
Specific examples
   * Replace & in search results with &
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/beacon.choice~([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sed 's/&/\&/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 23 AT&T Yahoo! Online Protection
 13 Parental Controls
 11 AT&T Yahoo! Messenger
 11 AT&T Yahoo! Browser
 11 AT&T Toolbar
  6 Connection Manager
  2 AT&T Pop-Up Blocker
  1 AT&T Security Suite SM