AmigaDOS scripting resources

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by kolla

You would think, right? Just a list dirs with lformat, and voila?
Except, only dirs with corresponding .info files are wanted.

Also, it might explain why you may find files named just ".info" here and there

If you want to exclude dirs not already having a .info, it indeed becomes more complicated.
I don't know the ProcessIcon command so i can't tell if it has an option to avoid processing icons that don't exist.
Doing it by script might involve calling an intermediate script, which uses if exists / endif pairs. Seems still doable.

[meynaf]

More precisely, it would look this way :

list dirs lformat "script2 *"%s*"" >script1
execute script1

With "script2" having the "s" bit set and looking like this :

.key dir/a
.bra {
.ket }

if exists "{dir}.info"
echo {dir}
endif

(where you replace "echo" i used to list them, with any command you wish)

There is perhaps a simpler way, but it works at least for listing them

[jPV]

Originally Posted by meynaf

Doing it by script might involve calling an intermediate script, which uses if exists / endif pairs. Seems still doable.

That can also be done in a single line, no need for intermediate scripts :P

list dirs lformat "if exists *"%p%n.info*"*Necho %p%n*Nendif"

[meynaf]

I guessed it was probably possible, I just didn't know we could issue a newline with *N

[kolla]

Just want point out to people who may not know about it, this little gem by ThoR:

http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/SED

_very_ handy for editing and formatting text output from commands and whatnot. It's not unix sed, but fills the same purpose, only using more Amiga like syntax and pattern matching.

[idrougge]

Oh yes, I used that quite a lot before. Much better than Unix SED.

[patrik]

Originally Posted by meynaf

I guessed it was probably possible, I just didn't know we could issue a newline with *N

ReadArgs() transforms *N to a newline.