It is capable of handling multiple files. Typically Paratext has one
file for each book of the Bible, so that is why it handles those files
that way.
I remember running into this problem in Windows, but I don't remember
how I solved it. I think I switched my OS. :) I agree this utility
should be more Windows-friendly. I just don't know how to do it.
Daniel
On 04/11/2011 08:21 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
David,
I haven't used usfm2osis.pl, but are you sure it is capable of
handling multiple files at one time anywhere? Usually the file glob is
expanded by the shell (at least in the Unix world) so the program will
actually receive multiple distinct arguments expanded out to match
each file in the glob. I thought Windows operated the same way.
Perhaps usfm2osis.pl is designed to be executed in a loop? From bash
they are very easy to write:
for file in $(ls *.usfm); do usfm2osis.pl $file; done
Additionally, if you operate in Windows and are actually doing
anything of consequence on the command line with Perl programs, you
should probably switch to using Cygwin or MSYS as they will behave
more reasonably than cmd.exe does. Cygwin will also have its own
version of Perl available for your use and should behave the same as
usfm2osis.pl.
--Greg
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:01 AM, David Haslam<dfh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Can anyone help?
CrossWire utilities written as Perl scripts such as usfm2osis.pl seem to be
designed for Unix users only!
This utility does not work when given with a wildcard to specify the USFM
files.
It does work, however, for each individual USFM file when each
case-sensitive filename is specified exactly.
I suspect that all such Perl scripts do not contain any code for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29 globbing Windows
filename wildcard patterns.
I'm not a Perl programmer. What is needed is for someone who is both a Perl
programmer and familiar with using Perl in the Windows environment to
improve all such scripts such that they are no longer a stumbling block for
users who prefer Windows.
btw. I have ActivePerl installed in my PC.
David Haslam
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