Questions tagged [automation]
Automation refers to the process of generating tools that execute tasks without the help of human intervention. Use this tag for scripts, software and other tools that allow for automation.
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Bash tool for automating Telnet/SSH commands with live interactive session takeover
I made this executable because I used to play on a MUD, which was essentially a server to which you connect to through telnet to play in a multiplayer world. What annoyed me was how difficult it was ...
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Simple Node.js version manager v2
As a followup to my previous version, I decided to try make this more cross-platform. I considered several languages: C++ is pretty cross platform, Rust is gaining popularity (and the language used by ...
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Simple Node.js version manager
On Arch Linux, there are 2 packages that provide the Rust toolchain: rust itself and rustup. When users try to install a package ...
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Fetching data from a REST-API then converting to CSV
I like to have a script which fetches data from a REST-API then writes the data into a CSV file.
Here's what I've got so far (prototype, using a publicly accessible dummy-API):
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Ruby 'mkdir_reports'-script for creating folder-/file-structure automated
Initial situation: Each week a nested folder-/file-structure has to be created. Content is added to the files. Afterward the structure is copied to a shared-folder for long-time documentation.
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PowerShell script for automated Windows health check and repair
I've been experiencing frequent issues with my Windows operating system, requiring me to manually run various system health and repair commands (such as DISM, ...
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API Generator for Python [closed]
I'm currently working on my thesis to obtain a bachelor in software engineering, and i want to get some feedback from real developers of how useful this project can be in the real life.
the project is ...
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VSCode-Portable Updater (MSYS2)
VSCode's portable mode doesn't support auto-updates, unlike its normal installer-based versions. I happen to use MSYS2's UCRT64 environment which makes the Linux tools I like play nice with the ...
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Ruby-function for reading, parsing a text-file, removing data-duplicates
Task description:
Implement a generate_unique_phone_numbers function.
The function shall parse the given text-file.
Content-example:
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Python script that refreshes network connection at random intervals
This is a followup to Python script that reboots the router every 600 seconds.
Recently censorship in China has increased because of the meeting of heads of states, and my previous script has been ...
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bash script to setup a digitalocean webserver (apache2, nginx, PHP7.4, fastcgi, SSL)
The following bash script is intended to be run on a freshly installed digitaloceans ubuntu 20.04 droplet by root in its home dir.
The purpose is to setup a ready to use webserver with SSL (certbot), ...
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Python API testing
I have written a rudimentary code in Python:
That reads the API collection from Swagger/Postman and extracts the
payload, link, and method
It creates the response with the token(Generated from the ...
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Unix batch job execution from BDD automation framework
As part of my testing, I have to connect to Unix server using putty and execute few unix jobs.
Feature file
Steps for test scenario:
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"Python AutoClicker" Part 2
I previously posted a question for codereview:
Python Autoclicker
And I received some great feedback and changes to do in the code.
I have done many of the changes mentioned in the answers and here is ...
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Python Autoclicker
I made this super basic autoclicker using Python (v3.7) and the pynput (v1.7.3) library.
Are there any changes that you could recommend to make the code more efficient, faster, and overall better?
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