Redirecting a WSH script without logo - jscript

I wrote a jscript script intended to create a CSV file. In theory I should use it like this:
myscript>foo.csv
But the CSV file gets corrupted by "Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 etc." logo.
I know I can write:
cscript //nologo myscript>foo.csv
but it is a loss of productivity and readability.
Do you have a better solution?

cscript /?
Usage: CScript scriptname.extension [option...] [arguments...]
Options:
//B Batch mode: Suppresses script errors and prompts from displaying
//D Enable Active Debugging
//E:engine Use engine for executing script
//H:CScript Changes the default script host to CScript.exe
//H:WScript Changes the default script host to WScript.exe (default)
//I Interactive mode (default, opposite of //B)
//Job:xxxx Execute a WSF job
//Logo Display logo (default)
//Nologo Prevent logo display: No banner will be shown at execution time
//S Save current command line options for this user
//T:nn Time out in seconds: Maximum time a script is permitted to run
//X Execute script in debugger
//U Use Unicode for redirected I/O from the console
So use
cscript //Nologo //S
Command line options are saved.

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Use python, to open cmd window with the directory supplied as an argument as the current directory

I want to use Python to open a directory in a Win10 cmd window, and keep the window open.
I made a batch file named: open_dir_in_cmd_window.CMD:
CD /D %1
I tested that batch file successfully, by creating another batch file named, Test.cmd:
Rem "open_dir_in_cmd_window.CMD" "f:\backup"
"open_dir_in_cmd_window.CMD" "f:\backup"
A very helpful webpage provides the following example, which I seem unable to follow correctly:
Spaces in Program Path + parameters with spaces:
CMD /k ""c:\batch files\demo.cmd" "Parameter 1 with space" "Parameter2 with space""
I made a python script, which contains the following lines, which alas, triggers an error message:
import subprocess
subprocess.run(cmd /k "E:\open_dir_in_cmd_window.CMD f:\backup")
When I open a Command Prompt window and run:
"C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe" E:\open_dir.py
I get an error message, SyntaxError: invalid syntax, with this:
subprocess.run(cmd /k "E:\open_dir_in_cmd_window.CMD f:\backup")
^
I've tried many different permutations of double quoting and can't figure out the right way to do it.
I have spent many hours hunting on the web and trying to figure this out and I do not know what to do.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

How to execute a URL from a command line without opening a browser on linux

I want to create a shell file to run a URL without opening the browser, it could have been run in Windows but in Linux does anyone know how to do it?
You can make an HTTP request from the command line using wget, or curl, or lynx, or perl (with the WWW::UserAgent module), or nodejs (with the fetch or request modules), or php (with the file_get_contents function), or a host of other approaches.
This has been done in windows in a bat file so that the execution of the URL is programmed every 7 minutes now I would like to migrate it to linux as I migrate the method with its user and pass parameters.
#if (#CodeSection == #Batch) #then
#echo off & setlocal
set "URL=http://......."
cscript /nologo /e:jscript "%~f0" "%URL%"
goto :EOF
#end // end batch / begin JScript chimera
var x = WSH.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
x.open("GET",WSH.Arguments(0),false,"user","pass");
x.setRequestHeader('User-Agent','XMLHTTP/1.0');
x.send('');
while (x.readyState != 4) WSH.Sleep(50);

Why am I getting a file not found error in Slimv?

I've set up slimv with the following command in vim:
let g:slimv_swank_cmd = '!gnome-terminal -e "sbcl --load ~/.vim/bundle/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp &"'
When opening .lisp files and starting slimv, I recieve the following error message in the newly opened terminal window:
debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002A8B203}>:
Couldn't load #P"~/.vim/bundle/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp": file does not exist.
Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.
restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
0: [CONTINUE] Ignore runtime option --load "~/.vim/bundle/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp".
1: [ABORT ] Skip rest of --eval and --load options.
2: Skip to toplevel READ/EVAL/PRINT loop.
3: [EXIT ] Exit SBCL (calling #'EXIT, killing the process).
(LOAD #P"~/.vim/bundle/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp" :VERBOSE NIL :PRINT NIL :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST T :EXTERNAL-FORMAT :DEFAULT)
However, running the sbcl command from the terminal works properly because the file does exist on the path specified. How can I fix this issue?
You need to make sure that the tilde gets expanded. Expansion is provided by the shell.
You can also compute the pathname in Common Lisp using:
(merge-pathnames ".vim/bundle/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp"
(user-homedir-pathname))
-> #P"/home/foobar/.vim/bundle/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp"
Merging a relative pathname with an absolute pathname, adds the directory like above.
Both functions (merge-pathnames and user-homedir-pathname) are in the ANSI CL standard.

Need help - Getting an error: xrealloc: subst.c:4072: cannot reallocate 1073741824 bytes (0 bytes allocated)

Checking if anybody else had the similar issue.
Code in the shell script:
## Convert file into Unix format first.
## THIS is IMPORTANT.
#####################
dos2unix "${file}" "${file}";
#####################
## Actual DB Change
db_change_run_op="$(ssh -qn ${db_ssh_user}#${dbserver} "sqlplus $dbuser/${pswd}#${dbname} <<ENDSQL
#${file}
ENDSQL
")";
Summary:
1. From a shell script (on a SunOS source server) I'm running a sqlplus session via ssh on a target machine to run a .sql script.
2. Output of this target ssh session (running sqlplus) is getting stored in a variable within the shell script. Variable name: db_change_run_op (as shown above in the code snapshot).
3. Most of the .sql scripts (that the variable "${file}" stores) that I'm running, shell script runs it fine and returns me the output of the .sql file (ran on target server via ssh from source server) provided, if the .sql file contains something which doesn't take much time to complete -or generates reasonable amount of output log/lines.
for ex: Let's assume if .sql I want to run does the following, then it runs fine.
select * from database123;
udpate table....
alter table..
insert ....
...some procedure .... which doesn't take much time to create....
...some more sql commands which complete..within few minutes to an hour....
4. Now, the issue I'm facing is:
Let's assume I have a .sql file where a single select command from a table have couple of hundred thousands - upto 1-5millions of lines i.e.
select * from database321;
assume the above generates the above bullet 4 condition.
In this case, I'm getting the following error message thrown by the shell script (running on the source server).
Error:
*./db_change_load.sh: xrealloc: subst.c:4072: cannot reallocate 1073741824 bytes (0 bytes allocated)*
My questions:
1. Did the .sql script complete - I assume yes. But, how can I get the output LOG file of the .sql file generated on the target server directly. If this can be done, then I won't need the variable to hold the output of whole ssh session sqlplus command and then create a log file on source server by doing [ echo "${db_change_run_op}" > sql.${file}.log ] way.
I assume the error is coming as the output or no. of lines generated by the ssh session i.e. by the sqlplus is so big that it can't fit Unix/Linux BASH variable's limit and thus, xrealloc error.
Please advise if on the above 2 questions if you have any experience or how can i solve this.
I assume, I'll try using " | tee /path/on.target.ssh.server/sql.${file}.log" soon after << ENDSQL or final close of ENDSQL (here doc keyword), wondering if that would work or not..
OK. got it working. No more store stuff in a var and then echo $var to a file.
Luckily, I had a same mount point on both source and target server i.e. if I go to /scm on source and on target, the mount (df -kvh .) shows same output for Share/NAS mount value.
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
ServerNAS02:/vol/vol1/scm 700G 560G 140G 81% /scm
Now, instead of using the variable to store the whole output of ssh session calling sqlplus session, all I did is was to create a file on the remote server using the following code.
## Actual DB Change
#db_change_run_op="$(ssh -qn ${pdt_usshu_dbs}#${dbs} "sqlplus $dbu/${pswd}#$dbn <<ENDSQL | tee "${sql_run_output_file}".ssh.log
#set echo off
#set echo on
#set timing on
#set time on
#set serveroutput on size unlimited
##${file}
#ENDSQL
#")";
ssh -qn ${pdt_usshu_dbs}#${dbs} "sqlplus $dbu/${pswd}#$dbn <<ENDSQL | tee "${sql_run_output_file}".ssh.log
set echo off
set echo on
set timing on
set time on
set serveroutput on size 1000000
#${file}
ENDSQL
"
seems like unlimited doesn't work in 11g so I had to use the 1000000 value (these small sql cmds help to show command with its output, show clock time for each output line etc).
But basically, in the above code, I'm calling the ssh command directly without using a variable="$(.....)" way.. and after the <
Even if I wouldn't have the same mount, I could have tee'd the output to a file on the remote server path (which is not available from source server) but atleast I can see upto what level the .sql command completed or generated output as now output is going directly to a file on remote server and Unix/Linux doesn't care much about the file size until there's no space left.

nsis execwait returning 7

Following line in my nsis script is returning 7 :
ExecWait '"$mysqlfolder\bin\mysqldump" --user=$MySQLUser --password=$MysqlPassword --execute="tcm > D:\db_test.sql"' $2
I would like to know whats wrong with it.
Are you sure the exit code is not from mysqldump? You could verify this by running Process Monitor.
In this case the problem could be the stdout redirection (>), this type of redirection is implemented in cmd.exe so unless --execute calls cmd.exe it is not going to work.
If you want to capture the output (of the "root" child process) you have two options:
Prefix your command line with cmd.exe /C (Use ReadEnvStr "COMSPEC" if you need to support Win9x)
Use one of the exec plugins that will capture the output.

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