What non-web-based tools exist to view IIS logs? - iis

I'm looking for non-web-based tools to view IIS logs. I've been using LogParser but I was hoping for something with an interface. It doesn't need to do any fancy reports or charts -- just a list with some search filters is plenty. I need something lightweight that I can run directly on the web server, preferably without a complex install process.

VisualLogParser wraps Log Parser in a GUI. I'm sure there are others as well, but it's fit the bill for me. All the yumminess of Log Parser, with a half-decent interface.

I find that command-line tools are often enough. For example, to list all log entries with a 404 response:
findstr "404" logfilename > out.txt
Findstr supports regular expressions in the search term and wildcards in the filename, so it is quite flexible for dealing with logfiles.

I'm intrigued why you need more of an "interface" than the command line interface already provided by LogParser? Are you struggling with the SQL-like syntax maybe or is there something else?
LogParser ticks ALL your other requirements. It totally rocks my socks.

Nothing beats log parser. However, you may want to check out Sawmill & splunk.

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DDE/IPC in linux gui?

There used to be Dynamic Data Exchange API (type of IPC) in windows which allowed sending notifications with params to running process and they would grab focus and conduct the operation. Is there anything similar in xwindows/gnome?
Like for example, when I get my phpunit errors, it comes with file path and line number. Was wondering if using any bash script or perl etc, I could grab the output and make the line below clickable
protected/tests/controllers/CmsControllerTest.php:17
so it quickly focus on my eclipse, open the file and moves cursor to the right line number.
phpunit and eclipse is just for examples. enough said.
The usual way to address this, would be to make the functionality an eclipse plugin.
There are lots of examples on how to write such plugins.
Moreover, you can probably lean on/reuse rather feature complete existing views (Problems view, Tasks view etc.) so making it look beautiful and matching eclipse should be a breeze.
Alternatively, there is a rich API that you could use to implement your own IPC channel to talk with your test runner outside Eclipse. An example of that is eclimd, the Vim-eclipse integration thing. Specifically, look at it's behaviour in 'Headed Eclipse' mode.

Using Emacs for big big projects

Maybe is a often repeated question here, but i can't find anything similar with the search.
The point is that i like to use Emacs for my personal projects, usually very small applications using C or python, but i was wondering how to use it also for my work, in which we have project with about 10k files of source code, so is veeeery big (actually i am using source insight, that is very nice tool, but only for windows), questions are:
Searching: Which is the most convenient way to search a string within the whole project?
Navigating throught the function: I mean something like putting the cursor over a function, define, var, and going to the definition
Refactoring
Also if you have any experience with this and want to share your thoughts i will consider it highly interesting.
Br
The "traditional" way of navigating C source files is to use "etags" to make a file called TAGS, then use ALT-. to go to functions across files.
For searching for strings in files, I usually use "grep". You could make a shell script with all the directories you want to search or something if you get tired of typing them in each time.
My projects typically live in git, so I put this together to quickly search them:
;; There's something similar (but fancier) in vc-git.el: vc-git-grep
;; -I means don't search through binary files
(defcustom git-grep-switches "--extended-regexp -I -n --ignore-case"
"Switches to pass to `git grep'."
:type 'string)
(defun git-grep (command-args)
(interactive
(list (read-shell-command "Run git-grep (like this): "
(format "git grep %s -e "
git-grep-switches)
'git-grep-history)))
(let ((grep-use-null-device nil))
(grep command-args)))
There is also the Emacs Code Browser. It makes exploring projects a lot simpler. See here and here for more information.
Regarding searches in the whole project, I find extremely useful the rgrep command.
Also, imenu is quite handy to jump to a function definition in the same file.
These are my 2p.
look to EDE from CEDET - it provide base support for projects...
ECB is too heavyweight for my taste. I have had good results with xcscope. Needless to say it doesn't help too much with Python.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CScopeAndEmacs
In addition to using TAGS as others have mentioned, I find igrep and igrep-find very useful. There is also Emacs' built in grep and grep-find, but I find their interface more clumsy.
My standard search is:
M-x igrep-find some_regexp RET ~/work_area/*.cxx
Which will look for all *.cxx files under ~/work/area, and show results matching some_regexp. Like all the search utilities, it populates a compilation-like buffer you can navigate using C-x ` (aka M-x next-error).
There are many ways that Icicles can help with projects. Likewise, Bookmark+ and even Dired+.
These libraries can help you create, organize, and manage projects, wherever their files and directories might reside. And they can help you navigate and search in various ways.
Some of the features are unique -- quite different from other approaches. I could list some of the project support here, but this is the best place to start.

Tool to create UI for Linux (Gnome) shell scripts

I'm writing a bunch of Linux shell scripts with complex selections. For now I use zenity for prompts. I'd rather use something where I can show more than one UI element at a time and query it in a script (e.g. a list and some checkboxed and a file picker and an entry field.
What are my options?
I believe GTKDialog comes with extended gtk-ified versions of the popular curses based dialog utility for shell scripts.
I'm not sure if it will serve the complexity of your needs, however. In any event, its a place to start.
You're going to have to move up to something more capable. PyGTK with Glade is fairly powerful, and Python is easy enough to pick up.
autoglade could also be of help to give your scripts of commands a graphical user interface, in many cases with no additional programming.
Some docs and tutorials can be found here.
zenity 3 now has a option to create a form with multiple elements. See the following bug report
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412493
Yad is a fork of Zenity that adds almost as much functionality as Gtkdialog. Mostly backward compatible too.

Search tool that uses a grammar rather than regular expression?

Are there any search tools that allow you to set up a simple token/grammar parsing system that work similar to regular expressions?
What we want to do is search our ColdFusion code for queries that do not have cfqueryparams in them.
A regular expression gets a bit tough in this situation because I can't keep track of the start tags while looking for something else before getting an end tag.
It seems like a parsing system would work more accurately.
Seeing it is XML, I would just use XSLT.

How to detemine the file type in Linux?

If someone sends me a document (.pdf,.doc,.xls, ppt, .ogg, mp3, png, etc) without the extension, how can I determine the file type? The /usr/bin/file command doesn't always guess right or it simply says that I have a Microsoft Office document. I would like to know exactly so I can add the extension to the file name.
You can come up with your own rules by adding them to /etc/magic
man file for more details. It is tricky to always get these correct however, I have had reasonable success.
Try mimetype(1).
For Perl, look at File::MimeInfo.
Some of the other posters thus far appear to neglect a few things.
File::MimeInfo uses the same MimeInfo database used by 'file' to identify files. So That's unlikely to do anything different.
File::Type is likely to be interesting though, as it relies only on itself, but this leads to a comically long script full of 'if' statements. But this is, by its very nature, unlikely to cover things 'file' already doesn't cover.
The best you can do with unknown filetypes is try cracking them open with a hex-editor, or running them through 'strings' and seeing if you recognise anything. If you manage how to Identify a file, you may wish to go for File::Type as your solution because as far as I can make out, its at least easy to extend.
You can use the Perl module: File::Type

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