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TortoiseGit – copy via sftp on pull

Intro: I have 2 folders which are on the same GIT repository, one is on a very slow Samba network drive, and one locally. using GIT on samba is extremely slow, but the Samba is my server, which is actually vmplayer running ubuntu server on a windows machine. My question is: is it possible to automatically cop…

Make directory structure from forward slashes

Im pulling an html document from a windows machine onto my linux box and the issue is the directory structure is not maintained between the two. This is how it looks in linux Im thinking of using a bash script that will change the “” into a “/” essentially making a folder. Im guessing …

Command line execution of Excel functions

Can Excel functions be called from the command line? I don’t want any interactions with any file. I’d just like to use these functions the way other command line tools work. It should merely serve some one-time purpose. For instance, I’d like it if there were a way to do something like this:…

Equivalent for Linux’s “screen”

Is there anything similiar to Linux’s “screen”? What I want to do is launch console application created in Java. Then let’s say I want to execute command to the running application. For example I want to tell it to exit so I’ll tell it command ‘exit’. On Linux I can o…

Protect PHP source code

due to bad internet bandwidth in my country, the client wishes for me to install my PHP/MySQL application on his Windows server or a Linux server. What is the best way to protect the source code? Or the folder where the PHP source code resides. The client should be able to use the rest of the server freely. T…

Strange Output Difference Between GCC and MinGW (C++)

I’m working on a project for a computer science class. I wrote the code and tested it using MinGW, and it works fine. I then copied the code over to the university’s Linux server and tested it there, since that’s what my professor grades assignments on. The output is very different – l…