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nbache wrote:And you could probably even do it without the explicit reference to PIPE: if you preferred.

For instance, I often do stuff like this after cd'ing to e.g. Kickstart or LIBS:

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list #? lformat "version %s file full" | execute in:

Best regards,

Niels

I get, after a few correctly displayed files, this

VERSION: object not found
version failed returncode 20
execute PIPE:_shell_D5_pipe_1: object not found

Raziel wrote:

nbache wrote:And you could probably even do it without the explicit reference to PIPE: if you preferred.

For instance, I often do stuff like this after cd'ing to e.g. Kickstart or LIBS:

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list #? lformat "version %s file full" | execute in:

Best regards,

Niels

I get, after a few correctly displayed files, this

VERSION: object not found
version failed returncode 20
execute PIPE:_shell_D5_pipe_1: object not found

You might want to add the FILES switch to the list command so that version is only called on files and not on any directories.

@salass00

Ah, nice, thank you

Need to keep this command in mind

salass00 wrote:You might want to add the FILES switch to the list command so that version is only called on files and not on any directories.

Oops - yes, good point.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Niels

nbache wrote:

salass00 wrote:You might want to add the FILES switch to the list command so that
version is only called on files and not on any directories.

Oops - yes, good point.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Niels

Am I simply failing to see the point of this horrific convolution to apparently get version info from a directory listing ?
Why are you trying to create a friggin Rube Goldberg machine ?
Have you tried cd'ing to the directory and typing; Version full file #?

colinw wrote:[
Am I simply failing to see the point of this horrific convolution to apparently get version info from a directory listing

It's more an example of how to simply use list with lformat and a pipe to execute a program on a file listing without a temp file, as a followup to YesCop comment on why he liked the old third party 'nlist'.

I didn't know about the IN: 'device' so it was usefule for me, at least, my version used explicit pipe: s

Yes, as broadblues also guessed, it was more or less just the simplest example I could think of to demonstrate what I often do with that technique, like applying a specific JHead command to a number of jpegs in a directory or similar.

BTW, "Version full file #?" does not give you e.g. the option to sort the output like List can - well unless you pipe it to a sort command, of course . (Oh, and C:Sort won't do for that, you'd have to use the sort from SDK:Local/C/.)

Best regards,

Niels

How about this?