Off topic DOS question

[Mark Musone]

Actually, Duh, I'm sorry..i misread your question..

I thought you were trying to emulate the DOS program in linux..and were
wondering how to run the program with correct arguments in linux..

sorry about that..

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
colszewski at adelphia.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:15 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: RE: Off topic DOS question

Mark , Dave and Justin thanks for the help..


Chet 



---- Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com> wrote: 
> Heres a quick example using tcsh command line (cause I'm a tcsh lover):
> 
> $ foreach i ( *.2d )
> foreach? dlink $i `basename $i .2d`.drg
> foreach? end
> 
> 
> if you want to do it recursively, you can just do it using the find
command
> (any shell):
> 
> $ find . -type f -name "*.2d" -exec /path/to/myprog {} \;
> 
> where /path/to/myprog is a little shell script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> dlink $1 `basename $1 .2d`.drg
> 
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> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> Justin Bennett
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:40 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: Off topic DOS question
> 
> you can't run it on a while directory with say *.*? If not do you have a 
> list of files for converting, say in a txt file from a direcrtory 
> listing or something? If you can get a list you can create a .bat file 
> (like a shell script) with 180,000 entries, they're might be some other 
> utilities that do the same thing, but this will work.
> 
> dlink file1.2d file1.drg
> dlink file2.2d file2.drg
> dlink file3.2d file3.drg
> 
> and so on.
> 
> You can make this .bat file with something like excel using the 
> concatenate function to get the syntax (though you might have to take it 
> 64,000 rows at a time) then you can get the whole list of commands for 
> 180,000 files, put them in a .bat file,either by copying to notepad, or 
> save a somekind of text like tab or csv, save it as a .bat run it and
wait.
> 
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> 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?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chet
> >
> >  
> >
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