gives me ALL the files in the folder. which is what I don't want. Is this a goofy characteristic with QB64?
Title: Re: QB quirk on shell dir command?
Post by: SMcNeill on January 02, 2022, 06:27:14 pm
Backwards slashes in the two examples? (rom_path is reversed in its direction.) Also there's no end slash, as per the working example, after roms.
Title: Re: QB quirk on shell dir command?
Post by: xra7en on January 02, 2022, 06:33:18 pm
oops that was a mistake on my post. they are winblows slashes in the cmd they should have been "\" (I edited it to reflect this
UPDATE
I switched drives and did the command again, its a dos error. For some reason, it seems to ignore the switches on different drives. so this is some weird quirk of dos "dir" from one drive to another. I just doesnt seem to see the /a-d part
Title: Re: QB quirk on shell dir command?
Post by: xra7en on January 02, 2022, 06:43:29 pm
So if I do
c:\> dir /b /a-d "drive:\path\to\roms\snes\" *.iso,*.bin it says: the system cannoot find the file specified, and then lists ALL the files in the folder.
However, If I do this in the same drive, no errors, and it lists the two extensions requested.
Unless I forgot how my dos stuff works LOL - VERY possible.
wish list, get dir$ working so it can do this :-)
(or does it)
Title: Re: QB quirk on shell dir command?
Post by: xra7en on January 02, 2022, 10:19:21 pm
OK, solved it this way:
cmd doesn't like the multiple extension in one line. so used spriggy's split.string (https://qb64forum.alephc.xyz//index.php?topic=3721.0) to split the extension
then looped through each split and wrote to the text file.
that all worked.
Title: Re: QB quirk on shell dir command?
Post by: bplus on January 03, 2022, 12:01:08 pm
Or get all files and filter out ones you want? Might be faster than all that com with hard disk and OS.