command line arguments

[flaxcrack]

Is it possible to give your script command line arguments?

[Jos]

Is it possible to give your script command line arguments?

as in $cmdline[] ?

[flaxcrack]

as in $cmdline[] ?

Let me research that. I saw it in the If...Then portion.

[Xenobiologist]

Is it possible to give your script command line arguments?

Hi,

surely it is.

$cmdLine[0]

Look at the helpfile.

So long,

Mega

[flaxcrack]

as in $cmdline[] ?

Yep that looks like it. It is under the Running Scripts documentation. I think you guys may wana move that into some other category and it should at least be in the index IMO.

[flaxcrack]

as in $cmdline[] ?

Humm. Can you explain the syntax of $CmdLine[]?

[Valuater]

you have the help file...

and, there is an example in this post

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...pic=19370&st=0#

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[Jos]

Yep that looks like it. It is under the Running Scripts documentation. I think you guys may wana move that into some other category and it should at least be in the index IMO.

Relax ..... it is already !

Look in the index for Command line Parameters

Look in the TOC for Command line Parameters

Edited February 9, 2006 by JdeB

[flaxcrack]

Relax ..... it is already !

Look in the index for Command line Parameters

Look in the TOC for Command line Parameters

When I try to load the help section of Command line Parameters I get a page can not be displayed. I get that in both the TOC and index. I tried this in both of the help files for the beta and stable release.

[Jos]

When I try to load the help section of Command line Parameters I get a page can not be displayed. I get that in both the TOC and index. I tried this in both of the help files for the beta and stable release.

Both work fine for me....

[ShelbySue]

When I try to load the help section of Command line Parameters I get a page can not be displayed. I get that in both the TOC and index. I tried this in both of the help files for the beta and stable release.

I also have a problem with the help file. It has something to do with the way you installed it. I had to download the BETA help file and just load it directly outside of scite

[flaxcrack]

I also have a problem with the help file. It has something to do with the way you installed it. I had to download the BETA help file and just load it directly outside of scite

Thanks for the tip

[flaxcrack]

I also have a problem with the help file. It has something to do with the way you installed it. I had to download the BETA help file and just load it directly outside of scite

I gave that a whirl and it didn't work. No worries, but could you please copy and past it in to this topic?

[ShelbySue]

I searched on Command Line Parameters and clicked on "Running Scripts"

Command Line Parameters

The special array $CmdLine is initialized with the command line parameters passed in to your AutoIt script. Note the scriptname is not classed as a parameter; get this information with @ScriptName instead. A parameter that contains spaces must be surrounded by "double quotes". Compiled scripts accept command line parameters in the same way.

$CmdLine[0] is number of parameters

$CmdLine[1] is param 1 (after the script name)

$CmdLine[2] is param 2 etc

...

$CmdLine[$CmdLine[0]] is one way to get the last parameter...

So if your script is run like this:

AutoIt3.exe myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"

$CmdLine[0] equals... 2

$CmdLine[1] equals... param1

$CmdLine[2] equals... this is another param

@ScriptName equals... myscript.au3

In addition to $CmdLine there is a variable called $CmdLineRaw that contains the entire command line unsplit, so for the above example:

$CmdLineRaw equals... myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"

[Micha1405]

Hello everybody,

i wrote this script which use commandline parameters or gui. mybe it help to understand $cmdlines.

This Script copied files from a txt file to a select destiantion (I didn't find anything like this for cmd )

for using Commandline parameter you must compile it to exe an start it @ cmd prompt

here is the script:

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

; AutoIt Version: 3.1.103 Beta

; Author: Micha

; Date 29.01.2006

; Script Function:

; Copy Files (reading from TextFile) copy to Destination

; Command FileCopyList Filelist Destinationfolder

; Command FileCopyList -? ==> HelpMessage

; Command FileCopyList /? ==> HelpMessage

; Filelist Sample Use

; CMD Dir c:\*.txt /s /b >c:\backup.txt

; dir /s/b /O:G d:\Scripting\*.* >c:\temp\list.txt

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#include <constants.au3>

#include <file.au3>

#include <string.au3>

#include <Process.au3>

#include <Array.au3>

OpT("TrayIconHide",1)

Dim $app="FileCopyList"

DIM $BackupFile,$Destination

Dim $HelpMSG="Use: filecopylist filelist destinationfolder"&CHr(10) &"sample:"&Chr(10)&"filecopylist c:\backup.txt drive:\backupdir"&chr(10)&chr(10)&"without parameter force gui"

if $cmdline[0]="" Then

;work with gui dialog

$BackupFile=FileOpenDialog("Select filelist","c:\","FileList (*.txt;*.lst;*.*)","Select Filelist")

if @error then exit

$Destination=FileSelectFolder("Select destination folder","Select Destination Folder")

if @error then exit

Else

if $cmdLine[1]="-?"or $cmdLine[1]="/?" then HelpMe()

EndIf

if $cmdline[0]=2 Then

$BackupFile=$cmdLine[1]

$Destination=$cmdLine[2]

if StringRight($CMDLine[2],1)="\" then;remove \

$cmdline[2]=stringleft($cmdline[2],StringLen($cmdline[2]-1))

EndIf

EndIf

if not FileExists($BackupFile) Then

MsgBox(0,$app,"CopyList not found",5)

exit

EndIf

If Not FileExists($Destination) Then

msgbox(0,$app,"Destionation Folder not found")

Exit

EndIf

$Count=_FileCountLines($BackupFile)

$file=FileOpen($BackupFile,0)

ProgressOn("Files copied from list "&$BackupFile,"","",-1,-1,16)

$p=1

For $i=1 to $Count

$cFile=FileReadLine($BackupFile,$i)

if StringLeft($cFile,1)='"' Then

;Change Nothing

Else

$cFile='"'&$cFile&'"'

EndIf

$DestPath=StringSplit($cFile,"\",0)

$l=$DestPath[0]

$FileLenght=StringLen($DestPath[$l])

$Dpath=StringTrimRight($cFile,$FileLenght)

$destFile=$Destination &StringTrimLeft($Dpath,3)

$cFile=StringTrimLeft($cFile,1)

$cFile=StringTrimRight($cFile,1)

ProgressSet((round($i*100)/$count),$cFile,"Remaining Files:"&$count -$i)

if StringInStr($cFile,".") Then; only entry is a file, not a directory

FileCopy($cFile,$destFile,9)

EndIf

Next

FileClose($file)

ProgressOff()

MsgBox(0,$app,$count&" Entries from "&$BackupFile&" copied to "&$Destination,3)

Exit

Func HelpMe()

msgbox(0,"FileCopyList",$HelpMSG,10)

exit

EndFunc

Edited February 10, 2006 by Micha1405

[flaxcrack]

Okay, so help me understand. I have this script

If $CMDLine[0] > 0 Then
      If $cmdline[1] = "/msg1" then MsgBox(0, "Test", "test1")
      If $cmdline[2] = "/msg2" then MsgBox(0, "Test", "test2")
  EndIf

And that script is compiled as that. But if I wanted to do: cmda /msg 2 (notice the space) and have cmda get the value how would I do that?

[Micha1405]

i think you mean this or i don't understand you

If $CMDLine[0] > 0 Then

If $cmdline[1] = "/msg1" then

MsgBox(0, "Test", "test1")

ElseIf $cmdline[1] = "/msg2" then

MsgBox(0, "Test", "test2")

EndIf

EndIf

[Geert]

But if I wanted to do: cmda /msg 2 (notice the space) and have cmda get the value how would I do that?

If $CMDLine[0] > 1 Then
    If $CMDLine[1] = "/msg" Then
        MsgBox(0, "Test", $CMDLine[2])
    EndIf
EndIf

[Valuater]

example for Autoit

Method 3 - The Command Line

The Aut2Exe.exe program can be run from the command line as follows:

Aut2exe.exe /in <infile.au3> [/out <outfile.exe>][/icon <iconfile.ico>] [/nodecompile] [/comp 0-4] [/pass <passphrase>]

Long filenames should be enclosed in double-quotes like "C:\Program Files\Test\test.au3". If no "out" file is given the input filename is used with a .exe extension.

so....

if cmda.exe is your compiled script then

cmda.exe /nada /msg 2

endif

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[Valuater]

i think you mean this or i don't understand you

If $CMDLine[0] > 0 Then

If $cmdline[1] = "/msg1" then

MsgBox(0, "Test", "test1")

ElseIf $cmdline[1] = "/msg2" then

MsgBox(0, "Test", "test2")

EndIf

EndIf

that will work also

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