Re: PDF inventory software
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: When I enter: $ find *.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 pdftotext nothing seems to happen. Although there is no error message, the text files are not created. Any idea why? Ah, apologies. I was just testing with $ find *.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 cat to see if the pipe itself worked as expected. I guess pdftotext is one of those things I've yet to grok, since on my end all I get is the -h message from pdftotext. PS I'm glad you did find (better) help on the list. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Hmm.. The command
find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
works in directories in which no PDF file returns the Document has
not the mandatory ending %EOF error. When a directory contains one
of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to
ignore or skip over this %EOF problem and continue operating on the
remaining PDFs?
Use something like:
find -X DIR -name '*.[pP][dD][fF]' | xargs -I % pdftotext %
where DIR is the root of the filesystem directory hierarchy to be searched.
Be careful of how many arguments you feed to pdftotext: it can overwrite
files. You may need to handle some files with encryption, etc. differently.
b.
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Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? If you want something with a GUI, you could have a look at JabRef (needs Java): http://jabref.sourceforge.net/index.php It keeps a BibTeX database, lets you do searches on it and links to the downloaded pdf files. Christopher ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:37:01 -0400 (EDT), vogelke+u...@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) wrote: Are these PDF files generated by scanning journal pages, or do they contain text? If the latter, you could use something like xapian or hyperestraier to make a full-text index of your files. On a much lower level, PDF files that contain text could be decomposited into ASCII using pdftotext, making it easy for further indexing. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:11:50 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? I don't think so, because PDF files seem to be binary format. There are two ways. The first is using the strings program that can isolate printable strings from binary files. The second - the much better way - is to use pdftotext to turn the PDF files into regular ASCII text which is greppable then. You could write a kind of pdfgrep tool that acts as a wrapper around pdftotext, grep, and your PDF file collection. In any case, it would surely help if your files have meaningful filenames, so they can easily be identified. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Le 8 juin 09 à 23:17, Daniel Underwood a écrit : I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. Hi Daniel, I am also a researcher, and although I did not find any tool suited to the management of my article's collection, I elaborated a methodology I am rather happy with. Let me detail this methodology: The atom in the organization of my collection of articles is the directory, this is handy because in a directory you can store many additional information along with the main file (the file containing the article). Each of these folders is stored in a vault. I choose the name vault because, IIRC, the place a dragon uses to store its treasures is called the «dragon vault» in the relevant literature. We, gathering all these articles we do not have time to read, are pretty much like these dragons sleeping on their pile. Here is the procedure to add an article to the collection: 1. I cd to the `vault' 2. I create a new folder to hold the article, usually with a rather cryptic name (without accents nor spaces) obtained 3. I cd to this new folder 4. I copy the article under the name `paper.pdf' or `paper.djvu' 5. I create a text file called INDEX, looking much like an email envelope, detailing the name of the authors and the article's title During the life of the article in my collection, I will usually add a `mathscinet.bib' for the bibliography entry (when it is taken from mathscinet), I may add reviews of the article and text dumps (all of this with standardized names). With this organization, it is pretty easy to dig the collection with combinations of `find', `awk', and `grep'. Moreover, putting a document in its folder makes the collection very flexible. I have even written a program producing a big `index.html' file from all of this, but of course it is currently broken and I have no time to fix it (I shall soon defend by phD!). There is much more to do, to have the good tools managing this collection! BTW, `djvu' is an alternative format to store articles digitally, it has many qualities, among them djvu files are usually much smaller than the corresponding PDF files (for retrodigitized papers). See djvu.org! -- All the best, Michaël ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using pdftotext. I tried the following command: $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Treatment).pdf ' Why is this not working? Thanks, Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Jun 8, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? I know this probably won't help pure FreeBSD users, but if, like me, you use FreeBSD for servers, and Macs for desktop, I can't resist recommending my favorite program of all time, Yojimbo: http://www.barebones.com/products/Yojimbo/ This is a general purpose 'Memory Bank'. You can throw all kinds of information into it, tag it with keywords, and retrieve it in an instant. It integrates with all Mac programs, so I use it all the time... Any time I get a pdf or web page I think I *might* want to reference someday, I throw it into Yojimbo. It's also great for documenting how to do things, so you don't have to relearn how to do a certain complicated thing 6 months after you figured it out the first time (I hate that). It's hard to explain how it works, but it is the most incredibly useful program. Wish there was something like it in ports. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using pdftotext. I tried the following command: $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Treatment).pdf ' Why is this not working? since xargs is expecting NUL for seperators you need th' -print0 primary with find -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
ill...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com:
I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using
pdftotext. I tried the following command:
$ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext
Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf
Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Treatment).pdf
'
Why is this not working?
What about:
$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; ?
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Re: PDF inventory software
$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF
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Re: PDF inventory software
Daniel Underwood wrote:
$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF
Have you run pdftotext on a single file in your archive as a test?
--Joseph Lenox
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Re: PDF inventory software
Hmm.. The command
find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \;
works in directories in which no PDF file returns the Document has
not the mandatory ending %EOF error. When a directory contains one
of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to
ignore or skip over this %EOF problem and continue operating on the
remaining PDFs?
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Re: PDF inventory software
Daniel Underwood wrote: Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me: $ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF It's probably an issue with the PDF itself, not with the program. --Joseph Lenox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:07:03 -0500, LoH lordofhyph...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Underwood wrote: Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me: $ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF It's probably an issue with the PDF itself, not with the program. Check % file Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf Just to be sure it REALLY is a PDF file - and not a PPT with wrong name. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
I retrieved a fresh copy of the error-causing PDF, and now all is well. Thanks for all the excellent help! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Daniel, I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using pdftotext. I tried the following command: Aside from the syntax of the command find(1) and some article that may be in corrupted PDF, you may consider hacking pdftotext to skip the do not print flag in some of the PDF articles. I don't think that many scientific articles would set the flag that prevent from printing them. But some PDF filess have that flag set, and pdftotext would not work on them, unless you patch it (which is easy, could even be a compile option, I don't remember). Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? Thanks, Daniel First thing that comes to mind is abusing BibTeX/LaTeX. Keep a BibTeX file (under version control for safety) or other LaTeX-based citation solution as a file on your desktop. If you're using articles from journals, you should be able to get the BibTeX versions of the citation information from general research portals like IEEEXplore or ACM's library (and many other places). For each one, add another field and add your local path (of the file referencing the article) to it. If you need to find something after that, grep the keyword or author's name with the option to display a couple lines up or down. A useful side effect is that if you know LaTeX (and it's a good skill to have), you have the citation information handy for easy inclusion in your own papers. With some work, that approach could probably be expanded to an GUI app. Like most things, it's a bit of up-front work and requires maintenance (mostly remembering to grab the cite info from documents as you add them to your collection). If you're going to be using any of them for citations, however, it's work you're already having to do. --Joseph Lenox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? One of your options - one of the most basic ones - is to use a CSV file where you define the different fields you want to be able to search. This is an imaginable approach: # inventory.csv # = # $1: $2: $3: $4: $5 # Author(s) : Title : Year : Keywords : File # --:---:---:---:- Foobar, J : Foo and Bar : 2000 : Foo Bar Baz Bleep : xyz12345.pdf Klopps, M : My Bratklops : 1975 : Eat Food Meat Loaf: qwertzui.pdf ... You can then use grep, cut, awk, sed, perl or any other scripting language for postprocessing, like making a list of your collection of a subset of it. The File field could even contain the full path of the file, or you use locate go get its location. This is handy for automating tasks, like print all the articles by Foobar J. One general advantage of this approach is that your favourite editor, along with grep, sed, awk 'n stuff are your tools of choice. You don't need to install lots of stuff. Even your bare base system can handle it. Because it's pure text, it's human readable and can be easily transfered between systems. It is very versatile and not limited by the functionalities of one certain program that you use. I'm very sure there is already a tool or a whole GUI subsystem that does indexing and taking care of arbitrary file collections, but of course I don't know its name because I never used it. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
PDF inventory software
I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? Thanks, Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? Thanks, Daniel Try using sysutils/tracker-client (http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/). It should do what you and much more. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) What are some of my options here? Just to add one more to the already list of good ideas. What about just using an RDBMS? These days, everyone seems to think you have to put some fancy web front-end on a RDBMS to make it useful, but SQL is pretty user-friendly. PostgreSQL, in particular, has some excellent full-text searching capabilities in the latest version. If you use a script to export the text from the PDF and insert into postgres, you then have a searchable database using word-stemming and all the other features of a full-blown search engine on steroids. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:45:38 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! I'd like to add that if you define your data fields well, you can use it to generate BibTeX and other LaTeX entries from your records. You can even easily turn it into HTML. But as I said: Keep in mind that it's very basic - but that makes is so versatile and strong. You could add a script that does some work (add, delete, modify, search or duplicate entries) for you, if you don't want to spend much time in the editor, and don't want to keep the pretty printing of the file intact (it doesn't matter anyway). The MOST important thing to pay attention to is NOT to use the desired delimiter inside a data field. If you already know that : will be in one of the fields, just use a less common symbol as delimiter, such as | or even ~. Of course, more comfortable solutions will surely keep off this manual work from you, but in most cases, they involve installing LOTS of dependencies. Finally, the advice of using some version control for the upcoming changes of the file is a good idea. You can even have more than one file, e. g. for separating topics or projects. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Daniel Underwooddjuatde...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. Hello, Might be overkill for one person but this is the software our scientists use in our place, quite a good application : http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/features.html Cheers, Steph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Hi, I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. Certainly overkill, but dspace(.org) can keep up a digital library for you, with full indexation. Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com said: D In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I D find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I D only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a D keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) D that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes D to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) Are these PDF files generated by scanning journal pages, or do they contain text? If the latter, you could use something like xapian or hyperestraier to make a full-text index of your files. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Top oxymorons #22: Childproof ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think Olivier A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for. -- Nothing unreal exists. - Kiri-kin-tha's First Law of Metaphysics. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF inventory software
Daniel Underwood wrote: A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for. True, but in this situation, I want to find something within a local collection of literature. E.g., find a table of data I recall seeing in my literature review. Which is why I initially suggested collecting the BibTeX (or your preferred citation management software of choice) entries for your articles and adding them. I know that when I start collecting articles for literature reviews, I get a BibTeX copy of the citation, so I can easily drop it into my papers. --Joseph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
inventory software?
Hello, Is there a inventory software in ports tree? What i want is to learn all hardware details (ram , cpu , mainboard etc. serial numbers and amount of them). I need a simple program that does this but couldn't able to find in ports tree Thanks in advance. Regards. -- Best regards, Omer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inventory software?
Is there a inventory software in ports tree? in base system - simply read /var/run/dmesg.boot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inventory software?
Omer Faruk SEN ha scritto: Hello, Is there a inventory software in ports tree? What i want is to learn all hardware details (ram , cpu , mainboard etc. serial numbers and amount of them). I need a simple program that does this but couldn't able to find in ports tree If you want to that for a whole network, you might try net-mgmt/ocsinventory-ng. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inventory software?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:01:38 +0300, Omer Faruk SEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a inventory software in ports tree? What i want is to learn all hardware details (ram , cpu , mainboard etc. serial numbers and amount of them). I need a simple program that does this but couldn't able to find in ports tree As long as the machines you want to list are FreeBSD, UNIX or at least Linux, I'd suggest the following procedure (which will look old-fashioned, but it includes the chance to learn and practice): 1. run dmesg on the machines 2. grep / awk for the data fields you're interested in 3. create a CSV database 4. add the information that can't be obtained automatically (e. g. serial numers) 5. convert the database into any format you like (e. g. XML) or just run on the CSV datasets for summarizing / counting informations Yes, ugly suggestion, I know. But I think implementing this will need less time than searching for a program to do it for you based on trial error. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inventory software?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a inventory software in ports tree? in base system - simply read /var/run/dmesg.boot sysutils/dmidecode cat pkg-descr Dmidecode is a tool or dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. The output contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: inventory software?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 11:07:31 AM, you wrote: That's great... Thanks.. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a inventory software in ports tree? in base system - simply read /var/run/dmesg.boot sysutils/dmidecode cat pkg-descr Dmidecode is a tool or dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. The output contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards, Omermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inventory software?
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 07:01:38 Omer Faruk SEN wrote: Hello, Is there a inventory software in ports tree? What i want is to learn all hardware details (ram , cpu , mainboard etc. serial numbers and amount of them). I need a simple program that does this but couldn't able to find in ports tree Thanks in advance. Regards. Coincidentally this morning I found this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-ram-speed-linux/ The information there says it works for Linux, UNIX, and BSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inventory software?
Pollywog skrev: On Tuesday 26 August 2008 07:01:38 Omer Faruk SEN wrote: Hello, Is there a inventory software in ports tree? What i want is to learn all hardware details (ram , cpu , mainboard etc. serial numbers and amount of them). I need a simple program that does this but couldn't able to find in ports tree Thanks in advance. Regards. Coincidentally this morning I found this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-ram-speed-linux/ The information there says it works for Linux, UNIX, and BSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=decodestype=namesektion=sysutils :-) /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
