Hello all,
I just released an update to V8Power Tools.
It has some general improvements to a couple tools.
Also, it includes a brand new utility called veach.
veach can be used for processing lists of items or commands.
Here are a couple example usages:
You have a directory full of bitmaps you want to resize using some program
called RESIZE.EXE…
veach /d *.bmp /x resize * /scale 50%
You want to take a file that lists a bunch of stuff and sort then display those
items with a count using VECHO.COM.
veach /f items.txt /s /x vecho “Item @ of # is *”
You want to the output of grep and display the STAT.EXE results for those items.
grep -iv “^IGNORE THIS” | veach /I /x stat *
You want to execute every BAT, EXE and COM program in a directory and ignore
any errors they may have. :-)
veach /d *.exe /d *.com /d *.bat /s /c /x
You just want a sorted list of all the BAT, COM and EXE files in a directory
veach /d *.exe /d *.com /d *.bat /S /L
Basically, think of it this way. Everything after the /X switch is like you
typed it into the command line. * is expanded to the list item, @ is expanded
to the index and # is expanded to the count. if you provide nothing after /X, *
is used (find and run this thing). Shell internals like type, dir, copy … are
not supported at present and you would need to would need to place them in a
batch file. Something like:
@ECHO OFF
del %1
veach /d *.* /x XDEL.BAT *
Now available through FNDPKG or download at
https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/v8power.html
or
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/v8power.html
Jerome
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