Windows (DOS) batch scripting question

[aux]

I am not even sure if this is possible in Windows, but I am trying to find a way to run a perl script on all files with some extension in the current directory and its subdirectories. In *nix I could do something like (see code below), but how to do this in Windows/DOS?

 

[FoBoT]

not without some extra stuff or something very creative

it would be much easier to do it in VBScript

 

[MrChad]

FOR /R %%f IN (*.foo) DO perl -w some_script.pl %%f

 

[FoBoT]

ok, i'll amend, that, for me, i would do it in vbscript, but it would be longer than that


i'd go with MrChad on this one. back to OT for me 😱

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, i'll amend, that, for me, i would do it in vbscript, but it would be longer than that


i'd go with MrChad on this one. back to OT for me 😱

You can do some pretty cool stuff with straight batch files. I had to google some of the syntax though.

 

[aux]

Originally posted by: MrChad
FOR /R %%f IN (*.foo) DO perl -w some_script.pl %%f

Thanks, will try that 🙂

 

[nweaver]

why not just put this into the perl script? SHould be dead easy to read the directory(s) and then sort, pop the stuff you want into an array and loop through that array.