Getting Version values into text

[pixie]

I would like to use List so I could automatically comment the version of each command. The thing is I cannot find a version command that allows me to pipe its result to a text file.

If I do:

version c:dir >t:dir.ver

It gives nothing but an empty file.

[Snoopy1234]

try version c:dir >t:dir.ver.txt

[DisasterIncarna]

just did it using a small script to help automate it.

.KEY FILENAME/A
IF EXISTS <FILENAME>
  Filenote <FILENAME> "`Version <FILENAME>`" QUIET
ENDIF

saved the above as C:FILEVERSION and protected it +S to make it an executable script.

then typed

LIST C:#? LFORMAT "FILEVERSION %P%N" >RAM:DOIT

This produces a file filled with stuff like...

FILEVERSION C:xUp
FILEVERSION C:xType
FILEVERSION C:xScan
FILEVERSION C:xQuery
FILEVERSION C:xPack
FILEVERSION C:xPK
FILEVERSION C:xLoadSeg
FILEVERSION C:xDir
FILEVERSION C:xBench
FILEVERSION C:wpa_passphrase
FILEVERSION C:winlaunch
FILEVERSION C:whdload-updated
FILEVERSION C:wget
FILEVERSION C:uuidgen
FILEVERSION C:untgz
FILEVERSION C:translate

thats a small snippet, but you get the idea.

then just executed the file in RAM:, any/all files in C: get a filenote of the version string "IF" one exists. Not sure how to fudge that into a 1 line or 1 file solution. also had to add "FAILAT 100" at the top of the DOIT file as it errors out when a version string does nto exist. in fact the above kinda needs a better way to deal with no string found as it currently lumps the version error text into the filenote using the above when no version is found, someone smarter can probably fix that issue in a clever way.

[pixie]

:O easy as pie! Thanks a lot! That worked beautifully

[Thomas Richter]

Originally Posted by DisasterIncarna

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LIST C:#? LFORMAT "FILEVERSION %P%N" >RAM:DOIT

Not sure how to fudge that into a 1 line or 1 file solution.

By creating the "FILEVERSION" command with the << input redirection of the shell and piping the output of the LIST command to execute:

LIST C:#? LFORMAT "FILEVERSION %P%N" | EXECUTE

[DisasterIncarna]

Originally Posted by Thomas Richter

By creating the "FILEVERSION" command with the << input redirection of the shell and piping the output of the LIST command to execute:

LIST C:#? LFORMAT "FILEVERSION %P%N" | EXECUTE

Ah nice way to do it.

1 problem with the little solution i used is that if no version string is present then the error output is added as a filenote (Could not find version Information for C:FileName, Version failed, returncode 20) rather than nothing, any idea if there is a better way to suppress that unwanted output from the Version command?

At a guess i think something would need to be added to the script when an error/failat 20 occurs so maybe an empty/blank filenote is added to overwrite the error string that gets added currently, maybe thats overkill and a simpler solution exists.

[Minuous]

Version command output redirection works fine here, maybe you are using some old buggy version.