[Geany-Users] Re: Geany build command doesn't output to a file

[Lex Trotman via Users]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 18:54, Lucas Vieites via Users
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>   Thank you, Lex.
>   I have signed up and written a small howto with the successful 
> instructions: https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/win32/build-command

Thank you for contributing.

Cheers
Lex

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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 9:55 PM Lex Trotman via Users  
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 23:32, Lucas Vieites via Users
>>  wrote:
>> >
>> >   Hi there,
>> >   Is there a knowledge base, or wiki, or similar where we can centralize 
>> > this kind of question/answer?
>>
>> https://wiki.geany.org/start
>>
>> >
>> >   Thank you,
>> > --
>> > Lucas Vieites
>> > lucasviei...@gmail.com
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 14:12 Virgil Arrington via Users 
>> >  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > 2) If that doesn't exist, try wrapping in a shell:
>> >>
>> >> >cmd.exe /c "my command"
>> >>
>> >> That works perfectly.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the suggestion. Thanks to others who responded with other 
>> >> suggestions. This one was the easiest to implement and it worked.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Virgil
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>> >>
>> >>
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[Geany-Users] Re: Geany build command doesn't output to a file

[Lucas Vieites via Users]

  Thank you, Lex.
  I have signed up and written a small howto with the successful
instructions: https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/win32/build-command

  Kind regards,
--
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Blog @ codexion.com 
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 9:55 PM Lex Trotman via Users 
wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 23:32, Lucas Vieites via Users
>  wrote:
> >
> >   Hi there,
> >   Is there a knowledge base, or wiki, or similar where we can centralize
> this kind of question/answer?
>
> https://wiki.geany.org/start
>
> >
> >   Thank you,
> > --
> > Lucas Vieites
> > lucasviei...@gmail.com
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 14:12 Virgil Arrington via Users <
> users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 2) If that doesn't exist, try wrapping in a shell:
> >>
> >> >cmd.exe /c "my command"
> >>
> >> That works perfectly.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestion. Thanks to others who responded with other
> suggestions. This one was the easiest to implement and it worked.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Virgil
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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[Geany-Users] Re: Geany build command doesn't output to a file

[Virgil Arrington Jr. via Users]

On 12/23/2022 3:53 AM, Lucas Vieites via Users wrote:

  Thank you, Lex.
  I have signed up and written a small howto with the successful 
instructions: https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/win32/build-command


  Kind regards,
--
*Lucas Vieites *
Blog @ codexion.com 
LinkedIn 

I hate to complicate things, but it's a little more complex than that. 
So far, in my experience, the *only* time I have needed to wrap a build 
command into the cmd.exe shell was with this one command in which I 
attempted to run the "python -m markdown %f > %e.html" command. All 
other build commands have worked just fine without being wrapped in a 
shell. For example, if I compile a markdown file using Pandoc or 
Darkslide, I can run the command directly from inside Geany without a 
shell. Only this unique command required the shell.


I suspect the problem is with the ">" character. With that character in 
the build command, Geany seems to stop executing the command once it 
comes across that character. It appears that the ">" needs a cmd.exe 
shell in order to be processed. The Python build command uses the ">" to 
output to a file. Neither Pandoc nor Darkslide use the ">" character for 
file output; therefore, they don't require a shell.


All that is to say that it is perhaps a little overly-simplistic to 
imply that all build commands in Geany running in Windows require the 
cmd.exe shell as they don't. But, it's useful to have the information 
available so users like me can have something more to experiment with.


Virgil

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[Geany-Users] Re: Geany build command doesn't output to a file

[Lex Trotman via Users]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 at 02:17, Virgil Arrington Jr. via Users
 wrote:
>
> On 12/23/2022 3:53 AM, Lucas Vieites via Users wrote:
>
>   Thank you, Lex.
>   I have signed up and written a small howto with the successful 
> instructions: https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/win32/build-command
>
>   Kind regards,
> --
> Lucas Vieites
> Blog @ codexion.com
> LinkedIn
>
> I hate to complicate things, but it's a little more complex than that. So 
> far, in my experience, the *only* time I have needed to wrap a build command 
> into the cmd.exe shell was with this one command in which I attempted to run 
> the "python -m markdown %f > %e.html" command. All other build commands have 
> worked just fine without being wrapped in a shell. For example, if I compile 
> a markdown file using Pandoc or Darkslide, I can run the command directly 
> from inside Geany without a shell. Only this unique command required the 
> shell.
>
> I suspect the problem is with the ">" character.

Yes, because that character is interpreted and the redirection set up
by cmd.exe, so if the command is run without cmd.exe it won't happen.

Cheers
Lex

> With that character in the build command, Geany seems to stop executing the 
> command once it comes across that character. It appears that the ">" needs a 
> cmd.exe shell in order to be processed. The Python build command uses the ">" 
> to output to a file. Neither Pandoc nor Darkslide use the ">" character for 
> file output; therefore, they don't require a shell.
>
> All that is to say that it is perhaps a little overly-simplistic to imply 
> that all build commands in Geany running in Windows require the cmd.exe shell 
> as they don't. But, it's useful to have the information available so users 
> like me can have something more to experiment with.
>
> Virgil
>
>
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