I'm trying to write a getpass function for R that will work with Rstudio. I've tried using the getpass C function (*nix, with Rcpp) as well as using the getpass from python using rPython, and both seem to work in the terminal, but cause the Rstudio prompt to freeze after entering a password and hitting return.
The output from python's get pass is,
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/getpass.py:83: GetPassWarning: Can not control echo on the terminal.
passwd = fallback_getpass(prompt, stream)
Warning: Password input may be echoed.
and using getpass(const char *prompt); I just get the password prompt that never returns to the R prompt.
As requested some code snippets that work in the terminal but not in R-studio,
library(rPython)
python.exec("import getpass")
pass = python.get("getpass.getpass()")
the Rcpp/inline code,
library(inline)
str = 'std::string pass = (const char *) getpass("Password: ");\n;\n return(wrap(pass));'
testfun = cxxfunction(signature(),body=str,plugin="Rcpp")
testfun()
Note I'm on a mac but it should be the same on other *ix boxes that have getpass().
Any clues?
Related
I'm a python noob here just trying to learn a new skill so please be gentle :)
After executing the following script it appears that my script creates a telnet session and I can see the cisco devices banner but is not passing the username/password when prompted.
I've tried changing tn.read_until() and tn.read_very_eager() neither of which is triggering the script to move on to write the desired input. I've also tried forcing the username and password to be input as a byte as well as adding + '\n' to my write functions. I've also used sleep to pass a little extra time to wait for the banner to finish printing out.
tldr: when executing the script I see the username prompt, but can't get further than that.
any assistance here is welcomed.
'''
from time import sleep
import telnetlib
from telnetlib import Telnet
from getpass import getpass
Username = input('please provide your username ')
password = getpass()
# f is the .txt document that lists the IP's we'll be using.
f = open('devicess.txt')
for line in f:
print ('Configuring Device ' + (line))
device = (line)
#open connection to variable
tn = telnetlib.Telnet(device)
#For those devices in the above list, connect and run the below commands
for device in f:
tn.expect('Username: ')
tn.write(Username)
tn.expect('Password: ')
tn.write(password)
tn.write('show ver')
print('connection established to ' + device)
tn.write('logout')
output = tn.read_all()
print(output)
print('script complete')
'''
I have a file called goodfile. Lets say the contents are
badline
goodline
badline
goodline
badline
badline
On a windows machine I want to filter this file to get only the "goodline"s before reading it to save on memory costs. Thankfully, the rtools installation comes with grep that should allow me to do that. I should be able to do
if(!pkgbuild::has_rtools()){
stop('install rtools')
}
rtoolsPath = pkgbuild::rtools_path()
grep = file.path(rtoolsPath,'grep.exe')
command = paste(grep, "goodline goodfile")
system(command)
and get
goodline
goodline
However when I try to pipe the output to a file by doing
command = paste(grep, "goodline goodfile > betterfile")
system(command)
I get
goodfile:goodline
goodfile:goodline
/usr/bin/grep: >: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/grep: betterfile: No such file or directory
This error message and the "betterfile" is not generated.
If I take the same command and run it on my command line, it just works, if I do the same system call with regular grep on R in linux machine it just works, so I can't see what the problem is.
I was able to find an alternative way to get the file by doing
system2(grep,
args = c('goodline','goodfile'),stderr = 'betterfile',stdout = 'betterfile')
but still curious why the pipe doesn't work
Recently I have been trying to use R to call a .exe program named mGenov It's command line program. I have some screenshots to help me explain this (I use Windows 10).
Supposedly, it works this way:
double click on mGenova,
type card.txt
hit "enter" the cmd window will close
I have tried a lot; basically they can invoke the program, but pass the command about typing card.txt in the command
shell(cmd="D:\\mgenova\\mGENOVA\\card.txt", shell="D:\\mgenova\\mGENOVA\\mGENOVA.exe",intern=F)
OR
system("\"D:\\mgenova\\mGENOVA\\mGENOVA.exe\" \"D:\\mgenova\\mGENOVA\\card.txt\""
,show.output.on.console=TRUE,invisible=T,intern=T)
And I always got this
[1] "Input the filename containing the control cards." "" "" "*** Control cards file is empty"
attr(,"status")
[1] 1
Warning message:
running command '"D:\mgenova\mGENOVA\mGENOVA.exe" "D:\mgenova\mGENOVA\card.txt"' had status 1
How can I get it run on it? Thanks for helping!!!!!
You could create a batchfile (let's name it batch.bat) on Windows with the content
cd /D D:\mgenova\mGENOVA\
mGENOVA.exe < card.txt
All necessary input for GENOVA must be provided by the file card.txt.
Then in R run the command
system("batch.bat")
**How do I clear screen in julia-app mac OS-X **
In mac terminal - clear would clear the terminal screen.
How do I do the same in julia interactive app in Mac OS X?
Use keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + L.
Use Julia's REPL shell mode:
julia> ; # upon typing ;, the prompt changes (in place) to: shell>
shell> clear # unix
shell> cmd /c cls # windows
If you need a function you could use the run function:
julia> ? # upon typing ?, the prompt changes (in place) to: help>
help?> run
INFO: Loading help data...
Base.run(command)
Run a command object, constructed with backticks. Throws an error
if anything goes wrong, including the process exiting with a non-
zero status.
julia> using Compat: #static, is_unix # `Pkg.add("Compat")` if not installed.
julia> clear() = run(#static is_unix() ? `clear` : `cmd /c cls`)
clear (generic function with 1 method)
julia> clear()
This works in a platform and version independent way (tested in Windows and Linux, Julia versions 0.3.12, 0.4.5 and 0.5.+).
Try Ctrl+L if you want to clear the screen the interactive shell runs in. Same as bash.
A partial answer
Create a function clear() to print new line characters
clear() = for i in 1:20
print("\n")
end
Then invoke the function
clear()
I am trying to run the following command from Julia:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/user/.julia/v0.3/Smile/deps/downloads
When I run it as-is it tries to replace $LD_LIBRARY_PATH with a local variable.
When I escape the $, it puts quotes around the command, which invalidates it.
julia> cmd = `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/tim/.julia/v0.3/Smile/deps/downloads`
ERROR: LD_LIBRARY_PATH not defined
julia> cmd = `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/tim/.julia/v0.3/Smile/deps/downloads`
`export 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/tim/.julia/v0.3/Smile/deps/downloads'`
I would like to run the command in a form similar to:
run(`export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$newpath`)
How do I properly handle the dollar sign?
Thank you
*note: pasting the command directly into terminal and running it does work
In Julia, backticks are not completely equivalent to running the corresponding command at the shell. You can't interpolate environmental variables with $ (although $(get(ENV, "varname", "") should match the shell's behavior), and export is a shell built-in, not a command, so I don't think you can run it. Also, even if backticks shelled out, export would only change the environment of the subshell, not the calling process.
You should be able to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH from Julia as:
ENV["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = "$(get(ENV, "LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "")):$newpath"
but you should avoid this if possible. If your intent is to ccall a specific library, you can pass the library path directly to ccall, perhaps using find_library as you indicated in a comment if you don't know the full path advance. If you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH because the library needs to load other libraries, I'm not sure if there's a better way, but note that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is platform-specific. You might be able to dlopen the dependent libraries first, but I haven't tested that.