RE: C# console application executing command line commands?

  • From: Øyvind Lode <oyvind.lode@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:26:46 +0200

Grr, I left out a "d" in and.
I'm typing so fast that my quad core can't keep up he he.

-----Original Message-----
From: Øyvind Lode [mailto:oyvind.lode@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 5. august 2010 22:21
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: C# console application executing command line commands?

An by the way it's Perl not Pearl <smile>

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss
Sent: 5. august 2010 21:51
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: C# console application executing command line commands?

Because Pearl and LUA are only good for web content, are they not?  

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield,
Tyler
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:26 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: C# console application executing command line commands?

why would you want to use something as clunky as AutoIt when you have way 
more elegant solutions? imbedded python, lua, perl, etc.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katherine Moss" <plymouthroamer285@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:24 AM
Subject: RE: C# console application executing command line commands?


> But don't for get.  You can use AutoIt for the scripting part of it and C#
> can just be the base of it with the AutoIt dll being called.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:48 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: C# console application executing command line commands?
>
> Usually, C# is a little too heavy weight to perform batch
> file/scripting tasks so there's no real elegant way of doing this.  C#
> wants you to stay within the abstractions of processes, threads, and
> objects.
>
> With that said, why not just use the static member
>
> Process.Start(string filename, string arguments);
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h6ak8zt5.aspx
>
> i.e.
> try {
> Process.Start("copy", @"/s c:\documents\foo z:\bar\");
> Process.Start("del", @"/f c:\documents\foo\temp.txt");
> }
> catch (Exception exp) {
> }
> ...
>
> On 8/5/10, black ares <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> if you do an application and put it a shortcut as send to
>> then when that item is clicked you app is called and a string is passed 
>> as
>> argument, the name of the object where right click happened.
>> I have done this for an application which receives an sql file and 
>> changes
>> with capitals all keywords.
>> Now if you right click on a sql file and give open with xxx application 
>> it
>> will create another sql file with all keywords capitalised.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: C# console application executing command line commands?
>>
>>
>>> Not specifically - this initial/current app is just one that would be
> used
>>> from send to context menu shortcut to generate playlists for a specific
>>> media player, since it uses a slightly different format of text file
> than,
>>> for example, winamp generated playlists, so I really just want to be 
>>> able
>>> to
>>> catch the argument/parameter sent to it - args[0], and then I can either
>>> use
>>> an actual System.IO.StreamWriter to write the relevant text file, or
>>> should
>>> be able to just call the relevant command line command to generate that
>>> text
>>> file, using a form of dir > filename command, and idea is also to keep 
>>> it
>>> as
>>> low level/simple as possible to let it work on a wider variety of
>>> machines,
>>> but anyway.
>>>
>>> In other words, would actually have preferred to just handle this in a
>>> batch
>>> file, but it's been a while since used one of them to try manipulate any
>>> variable values, etc.
>>>
>>> Looking into this also got me thinking about a few other possible uses
> for
>>>
>>> a
>>> command line/console app, and that's also why started wondering about
>>> getting it to execute command line commands, and exit/finish off itsself
>>> after code execution, but the other application/usage of console
>>> applications would most likely be related to either utilities, or 
>>> simple,
>>> pseudo games etc.
>>>
>>> Stay well
>>>
>>> Jacob Kruger
>>> Blind Biker
>>> Skype: BlindZA
>>> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 4:16 AM
>>> Subject: Re: C# console application executing command line commands?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Are you interested in creating a console mode environment with a
>>>> read-execute-print-loop (REPL)?  Generally, this requires a dynamic
>>>> language that includes an "Eval" function that can evaluate arbitrary
>>>> code
>>>> at runtime and display the result.  C# and Visual Basic do not have 
>>>> such
>>>> a
>>>> feature.  JScript .NET, IronPython, IronRuby, F#, Boo, and Nemerl --  
>>>> all
>>>> .NET languages -- do.
>>>>
>>>> Jamal
>>>>
>>>> On 8/4/2010 3:46 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Got that far, but apart from using
>>>>>
>>>>> System.Console.WriteLine to write strings to the console output,
> without
>>>>> them executing, and also trying to start a System.Diagnostics.Process
>>>>> like have done in past to launch external apps, I don't seem to be 
>>>>> able
>>>>> to find out how to actually execute a command, and it always finishes
>>>>> off with something like 'Press any key' when it finishes executing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stay well
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jacob Kruger
>>>>> Blind Biker
>>>>> Skype: BlindZA
>>>>> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>>>>>
>>>>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>     *From:* Katherine Moss <mailto:plymouthroamer285@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>     *To:* programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>     <mailto:programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, August 04, 2010 8:38 PM
>>>>>     *Subject:* RE: C# console application executing command line
>>>>> commands?
>>>>>
>>>>>     No you're not. All you have to do is to use the Console App
> template
>>>>>     in VS2010 or 2008. That will set up the correct namespaces and 
>>>>> such
>>>>>     and then just tell it what you want the program to do.
>>>>>
>>>>>     *From:* programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>     <mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>     [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of 
>>>>> *Jacob
>>>>>     Kruger
>>>>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:40 PM
>>>>>     *To:* Program-l
>>>>>     *Cc:* ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>     *Subject:* C# console application executing command line commands?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Ok, next silly question...
>>>>>
>>>>>     Since have never really created command line/console applications,
>>>>>     am now just trying to figure out how to get a console application
>>>>>     created in C# to execute command line commands, and then how to 
>>>>> get
>>>>>     it to close/exit itsself after operation?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Idea would be to create a slightly trumped up target for something
>>>>>     like a send to shortcut that can do a bit more than your average
>>>>>     batch file.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Have looked for simple examples, but am obviously, again, using
>>>>>     incorrect search terms or something - LOL!
>>>>>
>>>>>     TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     Jacob Kruger
>>>>>     Blind Biker
>>>>>     Skype: BlindZA
>>>>>     '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>>>>>
>>>>>
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