If the cmd.exe environment does not expand GLOB expressions for you, I suggest you upgrade to a fully-featured shell environment and file a bug against it with Microsoft. While you're waiting for them to complete basic functionality in their shell environment, try Cygwin or Linux or a BSD or Mac OS or Solaris or... well, you get the idea.
--Greg On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Daniel Owens <dhow...@pmbx.net> wrote: > It is capable of handling multiple files. Typically Paratext has one file > for each book of the Bible, so that is why it handles those files that way. > > I remember running into this problem in Windows, but I don't remember how I > solved it. I think I switched my OS. :) I agree this utility should be more > Windows-friendly. I just don't know how to do it. > > Daniel > > On 04/11/2011 08:21 AM, Greg Hellings wrote: >> >> David, >> >> I haven't used usfm2osis.pl, but are you sure it is capable of >> handling multiple files at one time anywhere? Usually the file glob is >> expanded by the shell (at least in the Unix world) so the program will >> actually receive multiple distinct arguments expanded out to match >> each file in the glob. I thought Windows operated the same way. >> Perhaps usfm2osis.pl is designed to be executed in a loop? From bash >> they are very easy to write: >> for file in $(ls *.usfm); do usfm2osis.pl $file; done >> >> Additionally, if you operate in Windows and are actually doing >> anything of consequence on the command line with Perl programs, you >> should probably switch to using Cygwin or MSYS as they will behave >> more reasonably than cmd.exe does. Cygwin will also have its own >> version of Perl available for your use and should behave the same as >> usfm2osis.pl. >> >> --Greg >> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:01 AM, David Haslam<dfh...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone help? >>> >>> CrossWire utilities written as Perl scripts such as usfm2osis.pl seem to >>> be >>> designed for Unix users only! >>> >>> This utility does not work when given with a wildcard to specify the USFM >>> files. >>> >>> It does work, however, for each individual USFM file when each >>> case-sensitive filename is specified exactly. >>> >>> I suspect that all such Perl scripts do not contain any code for >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29 globbing Windows >>> filename wildcard patterns. >>> >>> I'm not a Perl programmer. What is needed is for someone who is both a >>> Perl >>> programmer and familiar with using Perl in the Windows environment to >>> improve all such scripts such that they are no longer a stumbling block >>> for >>> users who prefer Windows. >>> >>> btw. I have ActivePerl installed in my PC. >>> >>> David Haslam >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Using-Perl-script-usfm2osos-pl-in-Windows-tp3441764p3441764.html >>> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >>> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >>> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
