DOS BAT Question (Find Movies)

[joe123]

Hi. I am trying to build a DOS batch script that will find all of my StarTrek movies and then call another bat file for processing.

I am having trouble with the last part. I get to the point where I have a listing of all of my Star Trek movies found on all of my drives, and I build a .txt file, but not sure how I can now read that data from DOS?

Anyone knows?


Here is what I have so far:
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@ECHO off

for %%f IN ( "StarTrek" ) do call :drives %%f
goto eof


:drives

FOR %%d IN ( C: E: F: I: J: K: L: ) do call :do-drive %%d %%1

goto eof


:do-drive

echo Doing Drive %1

DIR /B "%1\TV Movies\%2*.mpg" > C:\temp\movies.txt

type C:\temp\movies.txt

for %%m in ( C:\temp\movies.txt ) do call :movie %%m

goto eof

:movie

echo %m

goto eof

:eof

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by joe123

Hi. I am trying to build a DOS batch script that will find all of my StarTrek movies and then call another bat file for processing.

I am having trouble with the last part. I get to the point where I have a listing of all of my Star Trek movies found on all of my drives, and I build a .txt file, but not sure how I can now read that data from DOS?

Anyone knows?


Here is what I have so far:
-----------------------------------------------

@ECHO off

for %%f IN ( "StarTrek" ) do call :drives %%f
goto eof


:drives

FOR %%d IN ( C: E: F: I: J: K: L: ) do call :do-drive %%d %%1

goto eof


:do-drive

echo Doing Drive %1

DIR /B "%1\TV Movies\%2*.mpg" > C:\temp\movies.txt

type C:\temp\movies.txt

for %%m in ( C:\temp\movies.txt ) do call :movie %%m

goto eof

:movie

echo %m

goto eof

:eof

You could do this a lot easier with Dirmon.


Gerry

[joe123]

Yes, I have used DirMon2 for other things.

How do I use DirMon2 *AND* specify strings of file names like to search for "StarTrek*" ?

[GKusnick]

I don't use Dirmon so I can't help you with that. But if you want to develop your own script, I'd recommend learning VBScript or JScript rather than trying to do it with batch code, which is probably the least user-friendly way to do this kind of stuff. (Batch code is like 1960s-era programming technology.)

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by joe123

Yes, I have used DirMon2 for other things.

How do I use DirMon2 *AND* specify strings of file names like to search for "StarTrek*" ?

From Dirmon forum and Jere Jones:

Command Line Options Substitutions
The command line options block is a rather complicated creature.

First, if it is blank, then the target file name is added.
Example
Command Line Options:
Result: ShowAnalyzer X:/Directory/file.mpg

Second, if it is not blank, but does not have any of the substitution strings then the the target file name is put before what ever is put in the options block.
Example
Command Line Options: -status
Result: ShowAnalyzer X:/Directory/file.mpg -status

Third, if there are any substitution strings used then ONLY what is built from the options block is passed to the processor.
Example
Command Line Options: -i [[%FULLFILESPEC%]] -o [[%PATH%/%BASENAME%.avi]]
Result: ShowAnalyzer -i X:/Directory/file.mpg -o X:/Directory/file.avi

What are the substitution strings and what will the result be?

Code:
Example filename: D:/TV/Nova.mpg
%FULLFILESPEC% - D:/TV/Nova.mpg
%DRIVE% - D
%PATH% - D:/TV
%DIRECTORY% - TV
%BASENAME% - Nova
%EXTENSION% - mpg
Example filename: D:/Nova.mpg
%FULLFILESPEC% - D:/Nova.mpg
%DRIVE% - D
%PATH% - D:
%DIRECTORY% -
%BASENAME% - Nova
%EXTENSION% - mpg
Example filename: //Media/TV/Nova.mpg
%FULLFILESPEC% - //Media/TV/Nova.mpg
%DRIVE% - //Media/TV
%PATH% - //Media/TV
%DIRECTORY% -
%BASENAME% - Nova
%EXTENSION% - mpg
Example filename: //Media/TV/SageTV/Nova.mpg
%FULLFILESPEC% - //Media/TV/SageTV/Nova.mpg
%DRIVE% - //Media/TV
%PATH% - //Media/TV/SageTV
%DIRECTORY% - SageTV
%BASENAME% - Nova
%EXTENSION% - mpg

Additionally, anything contained within [[ ]]'s will be surrounded with quotes if necessary (i.e. there are any spaces). DO NOT NEST THEM!! Bad, bad things will happen if they are nested. If someone can come up with a possible use for nested quotes, then I'll look into supporting it. Until then, just don't do it.

Gerry