> Hi,
>
> Are there any scripting or batch processing functions in scid?
Yes.
> For example:
>
> 1. You have a pgn file of thousands of chess positions from games, but
> not the games themselves. Say like a file containing tactical positions
> from famous games. You want to want to search for those positions in
> your normal big database because you want to play through the games
> completely and not just solve the positions as problems.
> But you might not want to do this individually for each position. It
> might take a long time.
> Can that be scripted or batch processed?
Yes.
>
> Basically a for next loop that selects the start position of tactical
> position from the pgn file, then searches for the position in the big
> database, and saves it into a new database.
>
> Can that be done with scid?
Yes.
> Thanks
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#!/bin/bash
# scid_search <database_name> <epd_file> \
exec tkscid "$0" "$@"
puts stderr "opening [lindex $argv 0]..."
sc_base open [lindex $argv 0]
set fp [open [lindex $argv 1] r]
while { [gets $fp position] > 0 } {
puts stderr $position
sc_game startBoard $position
sc_filter clear
sc_search board AND Exact false 0
if { [sc_filter count] > 0 } {
sc_game load [sc_filter first]
puts [sc_game pgn]
}
}
close $fp
exit
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
awk -F\" '/^\[FEN / {print $2}' positions.pgn > positions.epd
./scid_search database_name positions.epd | tee found.pgn
pgnscid found.pgn
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