I chose to use MIDI-CSV to convert some MIDI files into CSVs. I downloaded the main .exe-files as a ZIP form the site (https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/#Download), but I can't get them to work. If I execute them, only a console pops up. Is anyone familiar with the syntax for converting files in MIDI-CSV (and CSV-MIDI) under Windows?
I tried to kind of use the command that was explained of the site:
midicsv [ -u -v ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]
The only problem is: It doesn't work. I tried many versions of it, with and without the square brackets.
midicsv [ -u -v ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]
csvmidi [ -u -v -x -z ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]
are the ones that are explained on the site.
I don't receive any results by entering these, I just get kicked out of the window.
By sheer coincidence I just happened to try fourmilab's midicsv myself.
I'm giving you my workflow.
No doubt oodles of other ways are available, this one happens to be convenient for me.
Let's say the file midicsv.exe is in the following location in the directory tree:
C:\Users\me\software\fourmilab\
So to invoke midicsv.exe the full path is:
C:\Users\me\software\fourmilab\midicsv.exe
In your case replace as needed.
(For robustness: avoid a space in that path. The command prompt processing is thrown off by any space in the path.)
Rather than first opening a command prompt window, and using that command prompt window, I put the command to invoke the midicsv.exe file in a plain text file that I save with the extension .bat
To edit the plain text file I use Microsoft Notepad.
(A word processor such as Microsoft Word tends to make the file not plain text, so do use an editor that lets you ensure the file is plain text.)
So this just worked for me:
to convert example.mid to example.csv I created a plain text file with the following command:
C:\Users\me\software\fourmilab\midicsv.exe example.mid example.csv
I saved that file in the same directory as the intended source file so I don't have to direct to the source file; the source file is right there in the directory.
(For the filename 'midicsv.bat' is an obvious choice)
I execute that .bat file by right-clicking and clicking the option 'Open'.
Midicsv.exe then converts that source file, and saves the result as example.csv
I find that using a .bat file saves me typing. If I want to convert several files I edit the .bat file for each conversion.
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I am creating an R script myscript.R which manipulates an excel file by means of XLConnectpackage.
The point is it refers to several external files: the excel file itself and another R file (functions library), so I need to set a working directory in the location of the script (so that relative paths to external files work properly).
I am using the following in my script
new_wd <- dirname(sys.frame(1)$ofile)
setwd(new_wd)
When I source the script from my RStudio it gets the job done. The problem is that the script is to be used by non-programmers, non-Rstutio-users, so I create .bat file (which I want to turn into an .exe one)
"C:\Program Files\R\R-4.0.3\bin\Rscript.exe" "C:\my\path\to\myscript.R"
It executes the script line by line but sys.frame(1) only works when sourcing.
How could I solve it?
Thanx
I have found a solution and it works properly.
From CMD command line or from a .bat file one can add an argument -e to the command, so that you can use a R language.
absolute\path\to\Rscript.exe -e "source('"relative\path\to\myscript.R"')"
It worked for me.
Besides, as Compo commented, I think there's no need for a .exe file, since a .bat does the job.
I am trying to zip file which is in the format of Amazon*.xls in unix and also remove the source file after compression.Below is the used command
zip -m Amazon`date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S`.zip Amazon*.xls
For the above command i am getting below error
zip I/O error: No such file or directory
zip error: Could not create output file Amazon.zip
PS: GZIP is working fine. I need zip format files.
It is not the zip, it is how your shell deals with expanding/substituting variables. Two lines solution for bash
export mydate=`date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S`
zip -m Amazon_$mydate.zip *matrix*
Execute by hand (few secs difference) or better put in a shell script myzipper.sh and just source it.
Use '-p' instead of '-m', if zip files are to be extracted on Windows OS.
export mydate=date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S
zip -p Amazon_$mydate.zip matrix
I am trying to take the files that I get with PuTTY's Plink command but save the file names to a text file so that I can only pull those files with PSFTP afterwards. Or can this be done without a temp text file?
The files I get are modified in the last 15 min, and I only want to get those files. I am new to PuTTY and FTP in general. I searched everywhere but cannot find anything that helps.
Any help is appreciated,
Thank you
You have to generate the PSFTP script file dynamically by reading the Plink output file line by line and producing a put command for each line.
See Batch files: How to read a file?
Or use an SFTP client that can directly download only files created in the last 15 minutes.
For example with WinSCP scripting:
winscp.com /command ^
"open sftp://username:password#example.com/ -hostkey=""fingerprint""" ^
"get /path/*>15N c:\path\" ^
"exit"
Read about file masks with a time constraint.
(I'm the author of WinSCP)
My problem is in two parts:
My team and I are using an Test Design Studio to write .vbs files in a Accurev Workspace. The problem is that Accurev recognize them as binaries instead text/ptext files... which causes problems when merging. Is there a setting in Accurev I can change to force it to recognize .vbs files as text/ptext?
All those binaries that are already in the stream, I need solution to convert them all into text/ptext. I've given up on the Client UI, because it means I'd have to go in the Workspace explorer and go through every single folder, one by one, and keep those binaries. Then I thought of the commands. I tried
2.1. accurev keep -c "keep ptext" -n -E ptext -R target_folder
2.2. accurev keep -c "keep ptext" -n -E ptext -R .
2.3. But I get a No Element Selected. That's because the "-n" flag is required for recursive, but it means it'll ignore non-modified files... and most of my files are backed and not modified... otherwise I can't even select the directory for keeping (I'll report "can't keep a directory"). I could create a file-list, but it would take as long as manually keeping all the files one by one. I also tried if I could work directly in the stream (since it has another empty stream above, it lists all it's files as outgoing), but I do not have the keep option in the stream. Is there an easy way to convert all files in stream/workspace as text/ptext?
Yes, you will need to enable a pre-create-trigger using the elem_type.pl script found in "accurev install dir/examples" on your server. Inside the elem_type file, you will see the directions for setting this trigger.
Yes, run the following command to generate a list of all the files in your workspace.
"accurev stat -a -ffl > list.txt"
Then run the this command to convert the files to ptext:
"accurev keep -c "ptext conversion" -E ptext -l list.txt"
Then you can promote those files.
Check the files with a hex editor to see if there are any non-ASCII characters.
If there's binary content in the file AccuRev will see those files as binary.
Overwrite the keep as jstanley suggested to change the type.
On the add use "accurev add -E ptext -c "your favorite comment" file.vbs
I am trying to convert a PDF document into a PNG file using ImageMagick command line tools from a ASP.NET website. I create a new shell process and ahve it execute the following command:
convert -density 96x96 "[FileNameAndPath].pdf" "[FileNameAndPath].png"
This runs well when testing the website on my local machine with the ASP.NET Develeopment Server of VS and the command also works well when manually entered into the shell. When running from the programatically created shell in ASP.NET there is the following error message:
Invalid Parameter - 96x96
Does anybody know why that happens and what to do?
I have tested the command while being logged in on the server via RDP with a different user account than the ASP.NET process. I have used exactly the same ImageMagick and Ghostscript installation files as on my local machine and have activated adding the ImageMagick installation path to the enironment variables during installing. The server has not been rebooted since than.
convert is also the name of a windows executable which converts FAT filesystem to NTFS. When you do not specify the full path of an executable, quote:
...the system first searches the current working directory and then
searches the path environment variable, examining each
directory from left to right, looking for an executable filename that
matches the command name given.
"C:\Windows\System32" is generally present in the beginning of %PATH% variable, causing the Windows convert utility to launch, which fails with "Invalid Parameter" error as expected.
Try specifying the full path of the ImageMagick's convert.exe like so:
"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick\convert.exe" -density 96x96 "path_and_filename.pdf" "path_and_filename.png"
As others have stated convert points to a different program in your PATH. Instead preface your command with magick. So your command would instead be:
magick convert -density 96x96 "[FileNameAndPath].pdf" "[FileNameAndPath].png"
In Window actually exists a "convert.exe" in system32 - make sure your script doesn't start that one (maybe the environment paths on your development machine are set differently).
I am only answering this late because imagemagick was updated. Now, if you wish to use the "convert" command, you do it like this:
magick convert "image.png" "document.pdf"
or
magick convert "image_00*.png" "document.pdf"
for multiple images.
Same syntax for command, just add magick before it
A couple more options for fixing this:
Edit your Path system variable to contain the path to imagemagick
as it's first content and then add the rest after it. This will make
windows always find the imagemagic convert first before it finds
the other convert program. So something like this: C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.9.2-Q16;C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\2014.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin;...
Another option is to create a dedicated folder somewhere on your machine where you will place shortcuts for some of these name clashes. Then what you do is that you rename those shortcuts to meaningful names, for example convert_image_magick, then add the path to this folder to your system path. So now as you hit tab more, you will finally find the right program you want to run
yes! if you launch an Administrator command window it defaults to C:\windows\sytem32\ ... as long as you're not in that directory the command will pickup the ImageMagick convert.exe
My issue was I was using the "FORFILES" command which is tricky because it requires using
"cmd /c" and passing the convert command with #path and #file parameters and it does some escaping of slashes... needless to say it's caused me hours and hours of headache. It even parses hex characters, like if your filepath has the combination 0x00 in it, it will think that's a hex value and mangle your path. I had a filepath named C:\ImageRes3000x3000
and FORFILES interprets that literally and it caused a strange path issue. Sorry if this is a long useless post but it's meant to be FYI, if someone runs across this, maybe it will help them. That being said, FORFILES and "convert.exe" are a powerful and simple image renaming line script combo.
here's my full 3 line image renaming script
robocopy D:\SRC_DIR\ D:\DEST_DIR\_staging *.jpg /e /MAXAGE:2
FORFILES /P D:\DEST_DIR\_staging\ /S /M *.jpg /C "cmd /c convert.exe #path -quality 65 -resize 1500 D:\RESIZED_DIR\\#file"
DEL D:\DEST_DIR\_staging\*.* /S /Q