How To Pass Command Line Arguments To Ant Task / Script

August 19th, 2008 Also: How To Flexibly Pass JVM parameters to Apache Ant Java (Runtime) Task Apache Ant is an excellent Java based build & deployment system using XML configuration file. In Ant properties are extensively used to configure tasks, conditionally run targets and more.

September 14th, 2008 One of the common challenges bash script writers face when writing a script which references files in the same directory (or its sub-directories) as the script file. As the script can be called from anywhere, you cannot use the current directory to refer to the files.

August 27th, 2008 I am using Ant (Java based build system) for our project. Ant is an exceptionally powerful build system and should be the only build system you will ever need.

October 10th, 2008 Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

December 23rd, 2008 Task manager is a very strong utility tool for Windows users. You can see the processes, prioritize them, end inactive or non-responding processes and many more things.

November 1st, 2004 Copy to and paste from clipboard on command line using these nifty java utlities.

April 20th, 2008 AWK is an extremely versatile and powerful language for processing files and text data. Often you can use awk to perform complex tasks on Unix / Linux / Mac OS command line which would otherwise take a full-fledged programming effort.

November 4th, 2005 Subversion is a popular version control software and replacement for CVS, the grand-daddy of all version control software which is still widely used in open source community. Recently I had the necessity to invoke Subversion commands like checkout from Ant, a popular java based build software which replaces make tool.

January 29th, 2009 Covering the most popular Linux shells (such as bash, ash, tcsh, ksh, korn, and zsh), this reference book shows how to use commands to create scripts within each shell and demonstrates practical applications for shell scripts (including retrieving information from Web sites and sending automated reports via e-mail). For each shell, the author discusses the commands available and explains how to use these commands to create scripts that can automate common functions and reports.

February 13th, 2008 Please read the original article - How To: Load Balancing & Failover With Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux. It contains detailed information with a sample script.

December 21st, 2007 strip_tags() in PHP has several problems. It doesn't recognize that css within the style tags are not document text.

June 18th, 2006 This is a simple guide to making friends (as many million as you like) on MySpace automatically (otherwise where is the fun?). Ensure you have perl available on your system.

October 16th, 2008 Postgresql command line interface psql presents a stumbling block to any mysql users. Try running psql on command line and you will get a nice and unfriendly error message: FATAL:  database "root" does not exist Most MySQL users face this problem initially with Postgresql because Postgresql works differently.

July 26th, 2006 I have seen myriad errors when executing java task. For example I have seen: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError?: Provider org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl? not found when executing the java task in jdk1.5.0 The problems with debugging the errors is that the commandline used by java task is not visible, even in verbose mode.

August 10th, 2008 nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd.