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php create file and send as attachment without actually creating the file

I know how to read a file on the server and attach it to an email in PHP, but I wanted to know if I could attach a file that is created by my script but not created on the server (kinda like a temp file). So create file in memory and attach it to…
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Generate and download a text file in javascript

All my research so far suggests this can't be done, but I'm hoping someone here has some cunning ideas. I have a form on a website which allows users to bulk upload lots of URLs to add to a list on the server. There's quite a lot of server-side…
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HTML client-side portable file generation - no external resources or server calls

I have the following situation: I have set up a series of Cron jobs on an internal company server to run various PHP scripts designed to check data integrity. Each PHP script queries a company database, formats the returned query data into an HTML…
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Is there an agnostic cli for quickly generating new features and projects?

I'm in the process of building some tools but find myself thinking I'm reinventing the wheel. I'm looking for a cli, preferably written in javascript, that has a config file and template engine. The config file would let you specify projects and…
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How to write a large amount of random bytes to file

I need to generate some files of varying sizes to test an application, I thought the easiest way to do so would be to write a Node script to do so. I wrote the following code but the process crashes when the file size exceeds my memory. const fs =…
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Create new files by copying contents of coordinate files into template file

I would like to write a BASH/ZSH script to create a series of input files to run calculations based on a series of molecular coordinate files which have been generated for me. Do do this, I would like to copy the coordinates into a template file and…
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Spring Batch file writing job doesn't stop and keeps running

I have a sample Spring Boot/Batch job I'm assembling together by adopting several online examples that is intended to simulate the generation of an ACH formatted file. I can see the file gets generated, but the job never finishes and the output…
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How to get Styled HTML to print a file with PHP

I was using this: http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/ to highlight code, as seen here: http://www.u4ik.us/code and if you type in some code and hit go, it highlights it. You can change the colors and all. I was wondering if I could then…
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How to calculate png size based on dimension and bit depth

I'm trying to generate white png (jpg, gif as well) files using imagemagick. I have to calculate image's dimension based on size(kb) and bit depth(1). I'm using this command on my windows machine: magick -size "width" x "height" canvas:black…
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Create a MS Word doc based on a template, changing specific parts of it using user provided values

I need to dynamically generate contracts, and for that our HR depart already has some specific templates which only need a few changes (like names, address, phone number, etc). For that reason, I'm looking for a library that will help me with the…
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Makefile: order of dependency evaluation

Assume a target foo.tar, that depends on a list of files foo.files, e.g. FOO_FILES := $(shell cat foo.files) foo.tar: foo.files $(FOO_FILES) tar -cf foo $(FOO_FILES) Now suppose that foo.files need to be generated e.g.: foo.files:…
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Roslyn Single File Generator Diagnostics

I am using Roslyn for creating Single File Generators. Under certain conditions I'd like to report an error. I am using IVsGeneratorProgress.GeneratorError function to add the error to the error list. However, I also want to have some code…
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Generate file by template using maven

I have a directory that contains several children-directories. These directories are being generated by maven assembly plugin. I want to generate the .properties file that contains smth…
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Library for generating independent windows executable in Java or C++

I am not trying to compile my source code into an executable. Please read before marking as duplicate. With that said, I apologize if this question has been asked before. The countless "how do I compile java | C++ to exe" questions filled up all my…
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How do flat file content management systems create new .txt files?

I'm most interested in flatpress, since that is the one I'm currently working with. All i had to do with it was remove its 'read-only' status in windows 7. I have zero understanding of what 666 or 777 permissions are. If you have insight into other…
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