I'm posting this in case someone else is haunted by the same "bug". Well, maybe it really is a bug, but not with what I thought. Lately it has happened from...
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hsavage
hrs62930
Sep 4, 2008 4:12 am
... Lotta, I get the same result, blank or all lines commented out selected text is cut. One working line, setting a variable, ie, interrupts the text cut. -- ...
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ebbtidalflats
Sep 4, 2008 2:54 pm
Thanks for the post Lotta, This explains a mystery I had encountered in the past, but could not duplicate. I guess if a clip is empty and you execute it on a...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Sep 4, 2008 3:40 pm
... I suspected I wasn't alone. :-) ... Yes, that seems to be what happens. But figuring that out wasn't painless. A dummy command goes at top of unfinished...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 4, 2008 9:41 pm
Is there a way to grab the output? I want to do a trace route that is pretty long and not have to type the output. Can I run the command prompt and capture...
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loro
yastupidhoo
Sep 4, 2008 9:51 pm
... Why type when you can copy? ... ^$GetDosOutput()$ Lotta...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Sep 5, 2008 7:54 am
... Probably a silly question: Just adding "> file.txt" after the command does not work? N.B: For those who have not heard: 4DOS has become freeware! Looking...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 5, 2008 12:48 pm
First I know nothing about that which I address. The exact syntax then is? tracert domain.com >c:\file.txt are there spaces in it?...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 5, 2008 12:55 pm
Aha, I got it thanks Axel: tracert>c:\file.txt domain.com that did it Thanks again. Google wasn't helping me all that much. Don...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Sep 5, 2008 1:00 pm
... Not sure whether they're mandatory, but I always place a space before and after the ">". I mostly use this redirect for stdout with dir and sometimes with...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Sep 5, 2008 1:04 pm
... Funny, it shouldn't. But obviously the command is more tolerant about its command syntax than the help leads you to believe. As far as I'm aware the...
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Mike Breiding
mikebreiding
Sep 5, 2008 1:47 pm
... I tried this a got the output below. I need help interpreting it. Since this is OT please email me privately or move to NT/OT Thanks, -mb ... Tracing route...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 5, 2008 6:57 pm
... Works for me as well now in your format. I'm thinking that maybe when I specified nothing for directory that it worked and I just don't know where it went...
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Larry Hamilton
lm_hamilton
Sep 5, 2008 11:46 pm
... Don, The format: command [options] > filename.txt takes the output of the command and puts it in the text file in the directory from which the command was...
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Larry Hamilton
lm_hamilton
Sep 6, 2008 12:24 am
... One other way to get the text of a command's output is with copy & paste. In Windows it needs to be in a window. Right-Click the title bar and there are...
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gunnisonbirder
Sep 6, 2008 10:44 am
I am using following clip for getting lines containing "search string" ^!Set %Search%=^?{Enter search string:} ^!SetListDelimiter ^P ^!Set...
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gunnisonbirder
Sep 6, 2008 11:23 am
Excuse me. I found answer to part 2 about removing words in all caps. I asked the question earlier in the year and someone answered. I had not followed...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Sep 6, 2008 11:29 am
... GetDocMatchAll uses regular expressions where the parentheses have special meaning. So you need to escape them if you mean them literally. Without changing...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Sep 6, 2008 11:35 am
... Correction: The question mark has a special meaning too, so it really should be "\(\?\)". Axel...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 6, 2008 12:42 pm
Larry Hamilton wrote: I didn't know this ... I didn't know this either -- my gosh you people are smart. ... I did know about f4 and f5, so that helped so that...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 6, 2008 12:51 pm
... Thanks Lotta, I missed this one. ^$GetDosOutput(tracert domain.com)$ Works fine. Now I can spice that up by asking for the domain.name in a wizard. I could...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Sep 6, 2008 1:09 pm
If I read what you have written correctly, you don't know what character is going to be between the parens. If that is the case, you would find it as follows: ...
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Bob Gorman
bobgorman2002
Sep 6, 2008 1:31 pm
Don, I find it so handy I put the clip on a button. My version is simply: ^$GetDosOutput("^?[Dos command=dir c:\projects\*.*]")$ *************** Since about...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 6, 2008 2:01 pm
I know I can use search disk to search a group of files and open them if they have my search term. In this case I don't want to actually open the files, I just...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Sep 6, 2008 2:19 pm
... Will a quick half-answer suffice? You can call the program in a clip with > temp.txt and then open that file right after. I don't know how to wait for the...
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Don - HtmlFixIt.com
dpasseng
Sep 6, 2008 3:17 pm
Jody is missed today. Nothing new there. I am using his DirStuff clipbook today. I encountered a minor error in one of the clips so I thought I would point...
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Flo
jonas_ramus
Sep 6, 2008 4:31 pm
... Given that the single character in parentheses is a word character, you may try... ^!Set %Search%=^?{Enter search string:} ^!SetListDelimiter ^P ^!Set...
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Don Daugherty
dondaugherty...
Sep 6, 2008 5:06 pm
... If I understand correctly, your (?) means any one of these: (A), (B), ...,(Z), (a), (b),..., (z), and it must occur at the line end. In that case, I would...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Sep 6, 2008 6:58 pm
Wondering if anyone has written clips to convert accented characters to UTF-8 format. The problem: XML files written by some applications are UTF-8. When those...
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Alec Burgess
alecb3ca
Sep 6, 2008 7:05 pm
Bob Gorman (bgorman@...) wrote (in part) (on 2008-09-06 at ... Great tip ... be careful not to run the clip while you have this clip or another open. ...
