[SOLVED] problems with a CommandExecuter

[ThomasM]

Hi Folks,

I am trying to do a batch-processing with xxHash on a set of DPX-Files. I want to hash every single file and put the hash and the Filename one Folder up in a LOG.

For the One-FolderUp I created a Variable:
%s_dir_1up% = $regext("%s_original_path%","(.*)\\")
I use this with many Workflows.

For the Hashing I tried hard to get so far:

%comspec% /C "
FOR %A IN ("%s_original_path%")
DO
("%s_ffastrans_dir%\xxhsum.exe" "%A"
>> "%s_dir_1up%\xxHash.JSON")
"

When I replace

FOR %A IN ("%s_original_path%")

with

FOR %A IN ("*")

It will populate the LOG with Windows-related Files

I also tried things like

FOR %A IN ("%s_original_path%\*.*")

with no luck.

Any ideas?

thanks a lot,
regards
tom

[emcodem]

Hey Thomas,

sorry i cannot answer your question directly, not an expert for batching but i turned away from the for function and use forfiles for file processing. I always had troubles with using ", (, newlines and DO in this command style.
Also i do go "up one folder" by using "\.."

Here is a working forfiles example, just copy and paste exactly this in your commandline processor. Note that i use another xxhsum tool because i dont have the one that you use on my harddrive.

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forfiles /P "%s_original_path%\.." /C "cmd /C "%s_ffastrans_dir%\Processors\resources\xxhsumX86.exe" "@path" > "@path.txt""

Also note, please dont confuse the "/C" above that is part of the forfiles command and the /C that belongs to the cmd command.
I hope it is somehow understandable for you Forfiles is a tool that lets you process files smarter than for, it exposes the found files properties using the @ symbol, in our case @path just means the full path of the current file....

If you want to go down the route of debugging your command anyway, you need to first use a write text file processor instead of the commandline processor and copy/paste the generated command on commandline (renaming to bat does not work because bats need doubel %% in for statements). Then tear it apart and play with it as long as you got it working

[ThomasM]

FORFILES... GEEEZ...

Thank you very much, emcodem! That´s it!

[ThomasM]

In the end...
I got my one working too:

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%comspec% /C "
FOR /R "%s_original_path%\" %A IN ("*.DPX")
DO
"%s_ffastrans_dir%\xxhsum.exe" "%A"
>> "%s_dir_1up%\xxHash.txt"
"

So I got the choice now...

Thanks to @emcodem!