Batching an exe against input file

[grimmy26]

I have an application which essentially just switches the extended NTFS offline attribute.
What I would like to do is run this exe against a text file which has a list of files that I want to switch this attribute on for.

How can I batch this exe to run against every file that is listed in my text file?

MCSE NT4, 2000, 2003

 

[baltman]

This a FoxPro question? I'd use shellexecute and pass the file as a parm.

CLOSE ALL
m.cDir = JUSTPATH(SYS(16))
SET DEFAULT TO &cDir

STRTOFILE("Test1","test1.txt")
STRTOFILE("Test2","test2.txt")

DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN SHELL32.DLL ;
  INTEGER nhandle, STRING @sFile,;
  STRING @lp, STRING @DIR,;
  STRING @dir1, INTEGER ncmd

FOR i = 1 to adir(aa,ADDBS(m.cDir)+"test*.txt")
  SHELLEXECUTE(0, "open", "C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe", ADDBS(m.cDir)+aa[m.i,1], "", 1)
ENDFOR
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[Mike Lewis]

You could use ALINES() to get the filenames into an array, and then loop through the array. Something like this:

LOCAL lnI, lcFile
LOCAL ARRAY laFiles(1)

ALINES(laFiles, FILETOSTR("FileList.TXT"))

FOR lnI = 1 to ALEN(laFiles)
  lcFile = laFiles(lnI)

  * Do something here with the file

ENDFOR

Mike

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[baltman]

I have a feeling it isn't a VFP question, but the shellexecute tip should be helpful.