[sword-devel] Using Perl script usfm2osos.pl in Windows?

[Greg Hellings]

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 <dfhmch at 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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