Trouble with running a cmd command

[lazyass 0]

Hi guys!

I'm having some trouble running a simple commandline through AutoIt. The line works when I just put it into a commandprompt or if I'm running it in a batch script, but nothing happens if I run it through an AutoIT script. No errors or anything...

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

RunWait(@ComSpec & " /C " & "for /r I:\ %%x in (*.txt) do ren %x *.bak", "", @SW_HIDE)

The batch script that I've got to work looks like this:

@echo off
for /r "I:\" %%x in (*.txt) do ren "%%x" *.bak
exit

Running AutoIt v3.3.6.1

Windows 7 Enterprise Edition SP1 64bit

[Exit 75]

Try this:

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /C ' & ' echo for /r "I:" %%x in (*.txt) do ren "%%x" "*.bak" >~.cmd && ~.cmd && del ~.cmd', "", @SW_HIDE)

Edited March 12, 2012 by forumer100

[JLogan3o13 1,274]

Hi, lazyass, welcome to the forum. It appears from your batch file you're trying to rename a bunch of txt files to .bak. Why not do this purely through AutoIT, and skip the middleman?

Notice I used the Desktop directory, as I have no I: drive mapped.

$dir = @DesktopDir & "Test"
FileMove($dir & "*.txt", $dir & "*.bak")

[lazyass 0]

Thanks for the effort, forumer100 but it still won't work.

Any other ideas?

@JLogan3o13: I would like to do it purely within AutoIT, so I appreciate your advise. It works at the root of I: but I would like to do it recursively. Any ideas how to do that?

Edited March 12, 2012 by lazyass

[Exit 75]

Thanks for the effort, forumer100 but it still won't work.

Any other ideas?

I edited my first post.

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /C ' & ' echo for /r "I:" %%x in (*.txt) do ren "%%x" "*.bak" >~.cmd && ~.cmd && del ~.cmd', "", @SW_HIDE)

Does it work now?

[JLogan3o13 1,274]

Hi, Lazyass. Just so I am clear on your intention, do you want to turn every .txt file on your I: drive to a .bak file?

[lazyass 0]

I edited my first post.

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /C ' & ' echo for /r "I:" %%x in (*.txt) do ren "%%x" "*.bak" >~.cmd && ~.cmd && del ~.cmd', "", @SW_HIDE)

Does it work now?

Yes, it works now. Thank you very much!

Hi, Lazyass. Just so I am clear on your intention, do you want to turn every .txt file on your I: drive to a .bak file?

Yes, that's the idea. If you have any solution to do so within AutoIt, I would love to hear about it.

[Chimaera 140]

Hi, lazyass, welcome to the forum. It appears from your batch file you're trying to rename a bunch of txt files to .bak. Why not do this purely through AutoIT, and skip the middleman?

Notice I used the Desktop directory, as I have no I: drive mapped.

$dir = @DesktopDir & "Test"
FileMove($dir & "*.txt", $dir & "*.bak")

Thats what he gave you earlier !!

[lazyass 0]

@Chimaera: And as I wrote...:

@JLogan3o13: I would like to do it purely within AutoIT, so I appreciate your advise. It works at the root of I: but I would like to do it recursively. Any ideas how to do that?

[Chimaera 140]

Id prob suggest using

and then using the array of files and doing what JLogan3013 suggested