If you want to check if your PPTP VPN Server is alive and responding via a script you can run the standard windows rasdial command from a windows batch file: rasdial entryname username password However to do this you the have to include a username and password in the...
Google said perl -le 'print "It\047s True";' But after playing around for a while I found this worked: perl -le 'print "It''\'\''s True";' Thats double quote It single quote singlequote backslash singlequote backslash singlequote singlequote s True double quote :)...
Just been trying to create a Perl script to run ping and return results #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # this is a heap of notes to try and come to grips with Perl # a bit better. # # Looks at how the system() call works # # How to build the command arguments to get #...
I used at to create a scheduled task that ran at 9:02 every week day: at 09:02 /every:m,t,w,th,f C:\path\to\my\batchfile.bat However when looking at the task in the scheduled tasks control panel all you see is At<id number of at job> e.g. At1. I wanted a nice...
This is something I just made up to parse a csv file and return a specific value from the first content line (line 2) and the last line of the file. The purpose for it was to get that information and then format a new filename of...
