Questions tagged [external-process]

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Ruby : get output of external command even when there is no line break

I try to run an external command in Ruby, and parse its output . IO.popen(command, :err=>[:child, :out]) {|ls_io| ls_io.each do |line| print line end } This way of doing it works wonders… except when I parse the progress-output of a…
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Trouble opening PYTHON keylogger with the launching of an external program?

Sorry for the ignorance, but I could not find a solution!! p.s.: I'm "hacking to learn and not learning to hack" -Tinkernut (youtube_channel) I had a simple keylogger.pyw and a notepad batch file so that when I clicked on a specific browser it…
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Empty file output from calling external program with output redirection in C++

From C++ source, I execute the following line: system("../BWAPI/ITUBot/Clingo/clingo.exe bwapi-data/AI/ITUBotWall.txt > bwapi-data/AI/solver-out.txt"); This line causes an empty solver-out.txt to be created. If I execute the same command using…
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Capture console text of piped app to another app

I'm sorry if the title is quite confusing but I am wondering if it's possible to get the stdout of an app that is piped into another app in java. Here's the commandline. sox -d -t wav - | lame - test.mp3 If this is executed in bash, this is the…
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How can I pass arguments to an external process from Perl?

I have a application executable, which runs with different parameters to produce different outputs. I want to give some parameters to this from the command line parameters of the script and others will be local to the script. Usage: ./dump-output.pl…
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Finding and opening any .exe file in C:/

I'm trying to create a small Java program that allows you to ask it to open an .exe file in a java window I created. Here's a small example of what I want User: Open chrome Program: starts looking for a file called chrome.exe in C:/ and opens…
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Why would Process.UseShellExecute = true cause ntdll to crash with a heap corruption when accessing a Delphi DLL?

A little back-story: When testing an installer for our C# (.NET 4.0) software recently, we installed on 7 or 8 different machines with success. But, one of our QA members installed and was able to get the application to consistently crash on his…
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Interrupt an external method call in java Thread

My java program use an external method(i dont have the source code) that takes a while to finish so i have made the call to that method in a Thread class (in its run method). Now the problem is how do I stop the Thread instantly (not wait for the…
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Is it possible to call external scripts and retrieve output using nginx?

My site has a search function at /search/. For every search request captured by nginx, I want to run a Python script and have nginx behave differently depending on the output of said script, whether it's the exit code or stdout. So something like…
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How can I get a directory listing from DOS in Perl?

I need to get directory names from the path passed to the Perl script as run time argument. Here is the code I'm using: $command ="cd $ARGV[0]"; system($command); $command="dir /ad /b"; system($command); @files=`$command`; But it still returns the…
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How to remove error in providing input to external process in Groovy

I am trying to give user name and password to an external process in groovy. But I am having some trouble in that as its failing with error. String username=params.get("u") String password=params.get("x") command1="external_process…
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C# Synchronous Commands When Running External Programs

I'm given the task to transcode a bunch of GoToMeeting Video files each evening. Once the video has been transcoded, it will be uploaded to a website. However, before I jump too far into the project, I wanted to figure out if this is even…
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java, execute exe from WAR in java code

In my war, I have file exe in WEB-INF\classes\ How can I execute this file in Java code (How can I specify path to this file) ? command = " ? "; Process x = p.exec(command);
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How to get process (external program) time, cpu usage for process run from java application?

I know how to run an external program in java: public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec( "\"c:/my-simple-app.exe\""); p.waitFor(); } } But how can I get…
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.NET application cannot run external process when previously started by a Windows Service

I have a C# WInForms client with elevated user rights (=Run As Administrator) and a Windows Service that restarts that client automatically if the user accidently exits the client. If the client is started by the User, everything works fine. If the…
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