Re: Is there a way to expand wildcard filenames on the command line?

[Rhesa Rozendaal]

Glenn Linderman wrote:

On approximately 1/29/2004 5:59 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Rhesa Rozendaal:
Glenn Linderman wrote:
On approximately 1/29/2004 4:39 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Chris Snyder:
[snip]
 Unless some better guru 
knows a trick!

for /F "usebackq" %F in (`dir /b compp*.bat`) do perl -pi.bak -e 
"s#/new/#/#g" %F

Does that qualify me? ;^)


Well, since you asked.... no... there are two bugs in your command line, 
and it is overly complex.  But using the CMD for loop isn't a bad idea, 
if done correctly.
My apologies... The use of the backticks I can explain though, because I 
use it mostly on directory trees, so I use dir /b /s. I should have 
simplified it.

When I ran that command, it didn't properly handle files containing 
spaces in the name, such as  "compp foo.bat" ...
You're right, I never spotted that. That is a bug. But what is the 
second bug?

It is not clear why you chose such a complex version of the CMD for 
the /s was the reason.

loop, the following one would have worked better:

for %F in (compp*.bat) do perl -pi.bak -e "s#/new/#/#g" "%F"

Note that even adding the "" around the final %F doesn't cure the 
problem with space-containing filenames when using your suggested 
syntax... I'm not sure why, even after reading the output of "for /?". 
Using the "delims" option helps, but I'm not at all sure what delims 
value would be appropriate.... I guess any character that cannot legally 
appear in a file name.
Thanks, I didn't know that one yet. Thank you for correcting me :^)

Rhesa
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