Month: July 2015

import time

print("Hello, World!")
time.sleep(5) # pause 10 seconds
wait = input("PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE")

Notes

Download Python from here: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Load Script into IDLE

Execute — Run Module

#include <chrono>
#include <thread>

std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(3000));

wchar_t strUser[64];
wcsncpy_s(strUser, L”administrator”, 64);

// Setup Information Lines
static void returnHelp() {
system("Color 1A"); //add some color
system("CLS"); // clears the screen
printf ("\n"); // add carriage return
printf ("Program Information\n");
printf ("\n");
printf ("Example: Add Example Here\n");
printf ("\n");
printf ("Author: Eddie Jackson\n");
printf ("Contact: mrnettek@yahoo.com\n");
printf ("Website: http://eddiejackson.net\n");
printf ("License: Freeware\n");
}

How to write C++ console applications that print colored text?

Method 1

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

int main()
{
const WORD colors[] =
{
0x1A, 0x2B, 0x3C, 0x4D, 0x5E, 0x6F,
0xA1, 0xB2, 0xC3, 0xD4, 0xE5, 0xF6
};

HANDLE hstdin = GetStdHandle( STD_INPUT_HANDLE );
HANDLE hstdout = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );
WORD index = 0;

// Remember how things were when we started
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo( hstdout, &csbi );

// Tell the user how to stop
SetConsoleTextAttribute( hstdout, 0xEC );
std::cout << "Press any key to quit.\n";

// Draw pretty colors until the user presses any key
while (WaitForSingleObject( hstdin, 100 ) == WAIT_TIMEOUT)
{
SetConsoleTextAttribute( hstdout, colors[ index ] );
std::cout << "\t\t\t\t Hello World \t\t\t\t" << std::endl; if (++index > sizeof(colors)/sizeof(colors[0]))
index = 0;
}
FlushConsoleInputBuffer( hstdin );

// Keep users happy
SetConsoleTextAttribute( hstdout, csbi.wAttributes );
return 0;
}

//bit 0 - foreground blue
//bit 1 - foreground green
//bit 2 - foreground red
//bit 3 - foreground intensity
//bit 4 - background blue
//bit 5 - background green
//bit 6 - background red
//bit 7 - background intensity

Method 2

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
while(true)
{
system("Color 1A");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color 2B");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color 3C");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color 4D");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color 5E");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color 6F");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color A1");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color B2");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color C3");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color D4");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color E5");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
system("Color F6");
std::cout << "\t\t\t Hello World" << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}

Redirection:

   command > filename        Redirect command output to a file

   command >> filename       APPEND into a file

   command < filename        Type a text file and pass the text to command

   commandA  |  commandB     Pipe the output from commandA into commandB

   commandA &  commandB      Run commandA and then run commandB
   commandA && commandB      Run commandA, if it succeeds then run commandB
   commandA || commandB      Run commandA, if it fails then run commandB

   commandA && commandB || commandC
                             If commandA succeeds run commandB, if it fails commandC

Numeric handles:

STDIN  = 0  Keyboard input
STDOUT = 1  Text output
STDERR = 2  Error text output
UNDEFINED = 3-9

   command 2> filename       Redirect any error message into a file
   command 2>> filename      Append any error message into a file
  (command)2> filename       Redirect any CMD.exe error into a file
   command > file 2>&1       Redirect errors and output to one file
   command > fileA 2> fileB  Redirect output and errors to separate files

   command 2>&1 >filename    This will fail!

Redirect to NUL (hide errors)

   command 2> nul            Redirect error messages to NUL
   command >nul 2>&1         Redirect error and output to NUL
   command >filename 2> nul  Redirect output to file but suppress error
  (command)>filename 2> nul  Redirect output to file but suppress CMD.exe errors

Notes

reg Query “HKLM\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProcessor\0” | find /i “x86” > NUL && set OS=32BIT || set OS=64BIT

if %OS%==32BIT goto 32Bit
if %OS%==64BIT goto 64Bit

Loading and Running EXEs

@ECHO OFF
FOR /f “tokens=*” %%A IN (‘dir /b *.exe’) DO (
ECHO Filename: “%%A”
::”%%A” /SILENTINSTALLOPTIONS
)
pause