Running gawk program in DOS batch file 1

[richardii]

I'm trying to run an awk program from a DOS batch file. I want to output each xms file in my directory to a txt file. This:

for %%f in ( *.xms ) do c:\awk\gawk -f c:\awk\cann.awk >*.txt

doesn't work. Does anyone know how to loop through the files of type xms and output each to a txt? More of a DOS question, but.....

Thanks very much.

 

[Krunek]

Hi, richardii!

I often use GNU awk for DOS (GNU, thanks! Jesus loves you). It works good. But program in command line must be between double quotes.

Something is wrong in you for statement, I think: you can't redirect output of the command into many files (*.txt), only in one file. For example, this for statement works:

for %1 in (*.xms) do type %1 > output.txt

I suggest you to do redirection inside awk script. You can also use this .bat file:

@echo off
if %1.==. exit
c:\awk\gawk -f c:\awk\cann.awk %1

If you don't know how to create filename.txt from filename.xms, you can ask me; I know.

Bye!

KP.