@Comspec

[grakker 0]

I'm really having a hard time with this. From a dos window I can run:

C:\Whatever\Directory>sed 's/","/ /' c:\StartingFile > c:\EndingFile

Which works great. Runs about 2 seconds on a 90,000 line file. It should be simple to run from Autoit. Yet this:

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /c ' & @SystemDir & "\sed 's/"",""/ /' c:\StartingFile > c:\EndingFile", @SW_HIDE)

Gives the following error:

C:\AutoItFiles\CleanCustomerBridge.au3 (29) : ==> Unable to execute the external program.: 
RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /c ' & @SystemDir & "\sed 's/"",""/ /' c:\StartingFile > c:\EndingFile", @SW_HIDE) 
The directory name is invalid.

I've tried it w/o the @SystemDir and as many different variables as I could try. Thanks in advance.

[Josbe 1]

The directory name is invalid.

What about SED file? System's file?

Check the quotes, too. (correctly closed?)

[SlimShady 1]

This is tested with the ECHO command:

RunWait(@ComSpec & ' /c sed ''s/","/ /'' c:\StartingFile > c:\EndingFile', @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE)

[normeus 0]

this is how I run my AWK stuff in win 98:

$val = RunWait("C:\GAWK\BIN\gawk.exe -fd:\prg\printcnt.awk d:\user\cnt\*.cnt")

(AWK is SED's older brother)

[grakker 0]

this is how I run my AWK stuff in win 98:

$val = RunWait("C:\GAWK\BIN\gawk.exe -fd:\prg\printcnt.awk d:\user\cnt\*.cnt")

(AWK is SED's older brother)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Coming from *nix, I'm pretty versed in most common CLI apps. My problem was that I wasn't reading the help file correctly. I just needed to add and extra parameter to the RunWait command in order to use the @SW_HIDE option.

Thanks everyone.