Author: johayek
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cygwin’s cp fails mentioning cygatttr-1.dll
…/opt/cygwin64/bin/cp.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygattr-1.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I wasn’t able to find a viable fix on the web. I found a copy of that file in in old installation, and I copied that into the cygwin bin directory – the cygwin64 and the non-64 one…
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installing Cygwin on Windows without having admin rights
https://superuser.com/questions/229477/installing-cygwin-on-windows-xp-without-having-the-admin-rights I like the “-B” (“–no-admin”) command line approach best: .\setup-x86_64 –no-admin
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DMOZ, dmoztools.net, curlie.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DMOZ#Renaming_to_Curlie http://www.dmoz.org – closed as of 2017-03-14 https://dmoztools.net – just a static mirror – currently “site:www.dmoztools.net …” is possible on DuckDuckGo and Google https://www.curlie.org – just a static mirror so far, but apparently going to be searchable in the future – currently no “site:www.curlie.org …” search on DuckDuckGo and Google
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Oracle SQL Developer – how to run it on Windows in English w/o admin rights?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7768313/how-can-i-change-the-language-to-english-in-oracle-sql-developer https://stackoverflow.com/a/24532448/3119172 I chose the approach “set language at runtime“: sqldeveloper.exe –AddVMOption=-Duser.language=en Works like a charm. On the Win7 PC at work I have no admin rights, therefore I cannot change the config file mentioned in the thread.
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tramp says: “Cannot find local copy program: pscp” – but that does not mean there is something wrong with your emacs/tramp/PuTTY set-up
Every now and then I come across this error message: Cannot find local copy program: pscp This only occurs for “bigger” files (e.g. a 40k file), not for small files, because small files are being dealt with by plink. tramp-do-copy-or-rename-file-out-of-band (in lisp/net/tramp-sh.el) tries to find the copy-program on exec-path instead of PATH, so we have…
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ldapsearch – and all the line wrapping
modern versions of ldapsearch support this: -o ldif-wrap=no http://dbocklandt.be/networking/ldapsearch-without-all-the-line-wrapping/ – for old versions
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Microsoft Sysinternals Process Explorer for Microsoft Windows
N.B.: Running this utility does not require admin privileges. Allows you to search for files / directories opened by process / applications. E.g. I had started Excel today, and it “operated” in some directory. I ended Excel, at least I thought so – but it kept running (in “stealth mode”), and it kept “locking” that…
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XML Shell: xmlsh: csv2xml
http://www.xmlsh.org https://github.com/xmlsh/xmlsh1_3 they also provide a Java .jar file and a shell script etc around it, so you can run it on your platform http://www.xmlsh.org/CommandCsv2xml – builtin csv2xml A couple of command line options we are using: -delim ‘;’ – German excel files get exported to CSV files with ‘;’ as column separator / delimiter, so when we…
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XML Shell: xmlsh
http://www.xmlsh.org https://github.com/xmlsh/xmlsh1_3 they also provide a Java .jar file and a shell script etc around it, so you can run it on your platform http://www.xmlsh.org/CommandCsv2xml – builtin csv2xml, funny! http://www.xmlsh.org/CommandRngconvert – that’s trang, dealing with “Relax NG“ examples for csv2xml: $ csv2xml -header my_file.csv $ csv2xml -header -attr my_file.csv # for CSV files created by Excel…
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Strawberry Perl for Windows – how to use within Cygwin
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/463947/how-can-i-modify-my-cygwin-environment-to-use-strawberry-perl-instead-of-the-pac