http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:16:34 GMT DZone Snippets: archive code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5328 // decompressing various archive types with this python script <br />// usage unpack <archive filename> <br /> <br /><code> <br />#!/usr/bin/env python <br /># <br /># simple python script for extracting mostly used types of archives <br /># this script extracts .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .gz and .zip archives <br /># <br /> <br />import sys # required for fetching command line arguments <br />import os # required for calling commands for archive extracting <br /> <br />def unpack(s): # this is definition of depack <br /> if (s.find('.tar.gz') != -1): # function. It takes string <br /> os.system("tar -xvvzf " + filename) # filename as argument. <br /> elif (s.find('.tar.bz2') != -1): # functon than calls <br /> os.system("tar -xvvjf " + filename) # appropriate command according <br /> elif (s.find('.tar') != -1): # to file extension <br /> os.system("tar -xvvf " + filename) <br /> elif (s.find('.gz') != -1): <br /> os.system("gunzip" + filename) <br /> elif (s.find('.zip') != -1): <br /> os.system("unzip " + filename) <br /> else: print "Wrong archive or filename" # other types not supported <br /> <br />try: # this is main program <br /> filename = sys.argv[1] # first argument right after <br /> unpack(filename) # 'unpack' command goes in the <br />except IndexError: # filename string <br /> print "Filename is invalid!" # than the depack function is called <br /> <br /># try-except block is used for handling IndexError exception if no argument is passed <br /></code> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:31:57 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5328 Tvrtko (Tvrtko) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5158 This Ruby code downloads previous twitter entries as html files to a local file directory. <br /><code> <br />(1..5).each {|i| `wget --user=jrobertson --password=secret http://twitter.com/account/archive?page=#{i}`} <br /></code> <br />then using grep -i <keyword> * you can search for anything you've twittered in the past. <br /> <br />Note: Use Wget sparingly. Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:55:59 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5158 jrobertson (James Robertson)