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in my new job i’ve been tasked with something ugly. webifying a windows CLI command. in my venture to find a way for PHP to spawn an interactive shell I came across this site: CommandWindows.Com.

Yes, yes, yes… windows sucks and we all know it(this is a very good blog post, highly recommend reading it!).
It turn’s out good’ol sysinternals made psexec.exe with the purpose of spawning CLI commands that require interactive console(eg. Platform LSF tools).

Put this one in the books for some way back memory I hope to never need in the future.

I do and do not recommend learning this.

Advanced BASH Programming – String Operations

They certainly can come in handy though if you don’t want to do some basic grep/awk work.

little example:

$ foo="my words"
$ echo ${foo#my}
words
$ echo ${foo:1}
y words
$ echo ${foo:2}
words
$ echo ${foo:3}
words
$ echo ${foo:4}
ords
$ echo ${foo:1:2}
y
$ echo ${foo:1:3}
y w
$ echo ${foo:1:4}
y wo
$ echo ${foo:1:5}
y wor
$ echo ${foo:1:6}
y word
$ echo ${foo:2:6}
words
$ echo ${foo:3:6}


insert

import pdb; pdb.set_trace() 

in to area of code area you would like to debug then run script.

These commands allow you to step through the code from the point of where pdb.set_trace() is placed in your script.

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