At 03:03 PM 5/4/2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> In bash, I just did this:
>
> for i in original/*.jpg;do convert -resize 50% $i
smaller/`basename $i`;done
>
> Try doing that in one line in cmd.
No problem:
for %F in (original\*.jpg) do convert -resize 50% %F smaller\%~nxF
Sounds like the last time you looked at the half-baked MS equivalents
was a long time ago. The latest (since W2K) versions of cmd are much
smarter than their old namesakes.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
It's true that new versions of cmd are much more powerful than
ever before. They've tried to adopt many semantic features of the
Bourne shell and its many descendants. The trouble is that rather
than borrowing syntax as well, they've invented some truly astonishing kludges.
I have a small bash script, a helper used by other scripts, that
searches for the base of my current Subversion work area. It writes
the pathname to standard output. Typical usage in a bash script:
cd "$(find-workarea)"
I recently had to write a .bat script (don't ask) in which I
wanted to use the same helper. Yes, it certainly is *possible*.
Here's what I had to write:
for /f "usebackq" %%w in (`bash find-workarea`) do cd %%w
Easy. Obvious. Natural. ;-)
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