Questions tagged [scripting]
In computer programming, a script is a program or sequence of instructions that is interpreted or carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor (like a compiled program is).
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How to manage working directory in interactive development environments like Jupyter Notebook?
I'm having trouble with managing the working directory in Jupyter Notebook. For example, I have a .py script that requires me to change the working directory to its directory to run it properly. I've ...
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How to bind C/C++ functions for my language [closed]
I'm making an interpreter (currently in python but later I'll remake it in C++) and I wondered how I could use a C/C++ function in my language so when somebody wants to write an extension for my ...
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Using sed/awk to bulk generate static HTML pages off of a template
Hypothetically, consider a social photo platform - each pic gets its own url, this page contains the image, text about the image, buttons for the user to click, related pics, and some user-specific ...
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What are the best practices to design a "verbose" mode in command line scripts?
To improve my command lines scripts, I want to add some optional console output, mainly for logging purposes. In my PowerShell modules, I use Write-Verbose for this (but it should be clear this isn't ...
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Automate clearing everything (database tables, log files, etc.) and starting from a fresh state during development?
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When I'm fixing a bug during web development projects, I often find myself cleaning out the existing (tainted) database records, clearing out log files, etc.
I do this so that I can start ...
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How to Maintain Rarely Used Scripts
I come across the need to do a lot of one time scripts (related to API evaluations, data extraction, experiments etc.) that have the potential only to be used very rarely in the future. These could be ...
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What makes a scripting language "embeddable"?
According to my experience, Wikipedia and prior answers, a scripting language is vague category of languages which are high-level (no manual memory management) and interpreted. Popular examples are ...
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Versioning an Application VS Versioning an Executable/Library
I'm trying to pass a point to my team whereas there are two different kind of "programs" we can serve : applications and executables/librairies.
An application in this sense is dependent on other ...
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Why only scripting languages for automating tasks? [closed]
To automate tasks, I have only heard of people using scripting languages.
Why don't people use compiled languages to automate tasks?
What can scripting languages do for automating tasks that ...
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Should we tailor APIs to the customer, or ask the customer to use the existing one?
I am a sole developer and I recently wrote a new web application in the form of a API with Swagger and front-end. This was customers could use the API on their own, usually forscripting.
It is ...
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What is the proper structure for maintaining single page python scripts
I am a self-taught programmer, and started my job as a PHP developer,in a small company.
I then got some work to write python script. I didn't have any senior with proper Python experience. So I ...
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Can one time executable scripts be a part of SOLID design? [closed]
Imagine a table T, with 2 columns containing data. Everyday, one row is added the table.
Now you add 3rd column to the table (After adding this column too, one row will be added the table everyday)....
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What is the best approach to store and execute script from .NET application
I am making an application that will allow user to store and execute simple scripts using Web GUI. Web GUI is ASP.NET MVC and scripts can be of any kind (Python, Perl, AWK, CMD, PowerShell ect. User ...
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Is there such a thing as a 'pseudo-compiler' for proprietary software?
I'm interested in whether there is such a thing as a pseudo-compiler that can create a kind of binary or bytecode version of a plaintext script file, which can only be accessed by a proprietary piece ...
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Windows batch files (.bat) coding style standard
Is there any standard/encouraged Windows batch file coding style?
I would think that if I want my batch files to be easy to read/mantain, I should care about this, but searching the web I found very ...
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Unit testing C code?
I learnt about the check testing framework today that seems good. This far I've scripted tests that uses valgrind so that the tests both display output from the tests and from valgrind. Is there a ...
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Is it unreasonable to implement a small domain specific scripting language?
At my new job, they are currently spending scores of labor hours that we don't have to do manual QA testing after every build. Nothing is automated at all. (We can only afford three developers, and ...
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I'm looking for a way to add database update scripts to a "playlist" [closed]
I've got a group of scripts to run and I'd like to batch them all together. Rather than write a .cmd/.bat file to run the lot it feels to me like there ought to be something similar to a playlist (e.g....
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Design: Lisp (or other scripting language) as an interactive interface for C++?
I'm working on a medium size C++ project (will probably end up around 50k lines) and I have to provide an interactive terminal interface. The program produces scientific data as an output and the ...
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Should one use many small configuration files for script or a single large configuration file?
I have a script which starts from cron with regular interval and sources in around 10 variables. Should I keep those 10 variables in one configuration file in file system or is it a better practice to ...
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What is a simple, correct and secure way of executing code stored in database?, that is also sandboxed
Webhooks can be a very powerful thing when you try to automate or integrate software, however, handling their deployment in a controlled environment can suck in terms of security and deployment alone.
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Embedding extremely basic scripts in application
I need to program a C++ application which will basically work as a script interpreter, but with extremely basic and limited scripts.
The scripts will have a format like this:
processedA = doProcessA(...
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Where should I put (wrapper) scripts in my source tree? [closed]
I have this software package which installs itself to /usr/local/mypackge, with a bunch of subdirs. In bin/ I have linked code, as ELF executables, in /share/doc I have documents, etc. Now suppose I'...
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How to let users share custom code content under the mobile app store restrictions?
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Mobile application store owners are known to explicitly forbid some application extensibility scenarios.
Apple:
2.7 Apps that download code in any way or form will be rejected
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Recreating files from shell script or java?
I have java application which takes a file, which is created by a process running on terminal. I start the process using a small shell script. Then run the Java application and it reads the file ...
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