Off topic DOS question

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- colszewski at adelphia.net wrote:

> I have 2 .txt files I need to take the information from both txt files and
> use it as arguments to a program. The program is for file conversions and
> there are about 180,000 files that need converting. Here is an example of
> what I need to do.
> 
> The DOS program I need to run is called dlink.   And you use the program like
> this,
> 
> dlink  file1.2d file1.drg
> 
> The dlink program handles the converting, but I am looking for and easy way
> to supply the arguments. (other than one at a time) Anyone have any ideas?
> 

Dos does have variables,  like %1 %2 and so on that correspond to command line
arguments

so if you have a batch file like:
test.bat:
@cls 
echo arg 0:"%0", arg 1:"%1" arg 2:"%2" 

and ran it as test.bat crappy OS
it would print out:
arg 0:"test.b" arg 1:"crappy" arg 2:"OS"

so you can get command line args into a batch file.  You might be a lot better
off going to cygwin.org, installing bash under windows and reading a couple
bash scripting howto's and do it that way as it's a million times more powerful
than DOS batch.





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Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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