[Solved] commandline exe tools

[SadBunny]

Are you sure? The user manual states clearly: Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-meta that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.

[kisstom]

The problem is space between "test" and " folder" in the path

[SadBunny]

I understand, but quoting the argument like that should be the solution to that problem.

[SadBunny]

Try running it with /k instead of /c, and @SW_SHOW instead of @SW_HIDE, so you can see the dos prompt window with possible error codes.

[kisstom]

Try running it with /k instead of /c, and @SW_SHOW instead of @SW_HIDE, so you can see the dos prompt window with possible error codes.

​? Extactly what i did (@SW_SHOW not needed, /k enough), that's why i know the exe goes only to c:\test

[SadBunny]

Think I got it, after some googling. It's weird how cmd works with quoting its parameters. Try this:

Run(@ComSpec & " /k """"" & @ScriptDir & "\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe"" ""c:\test folder\test.mobi"" --title TESTbook --authors somebody""""")

Yes, all those quotes are necessary. I downloaded the program and tried it out myself. My actual command was:
C:\tmp>cmd /c ""c:\Program Files\Calibre2\ebook-meta.exe" "c:\tmp\test dir\test file.mobi" --title TESTbook3 --authors somebody2""
Hope I converted it to your paths correctly

[kisstom]

OMG, so many quoting, i'll dream about them tonight! And we still not there if title or author contains space(s)

Run(@ComSpec & " /k """"" & @ScriptDir & "\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe"" ""c:\test folder\test.mobi"" --title ""TEST és book"" --authors ""some body"" """"")

Need space after body"" , otherwise the autor will be some body"

Bu there is a new problem if i want to use a variable like this:

$Path = "c:\test folder\test.mobi"
Run(@ComSpec & " /k """"" & @ScriptDir & "\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe"" & "$Path" --title ""TEST és book"" --authors ""some body"" """"")

Not working...

[SadBunny]

Believe it or not, but you used the quotes incorrectly  (/edit: and you forgot to put a space between the exe and the path)

Run(@ComSpec & " /k """"" & @ScriptDir & "\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe """ & $Path & """ --title ""TEST és book"" --authors ""some body""""")

/edit 2: and you need five quotes at the end instead of seven. That way you don't need the space.

Edited June 11, 2015 by SadBunny

[SadBunny]

Pro tip: you don't need to quote the doublequote if you use single quotes to formulate your string.

Run(@ComSpec & ' /k ""' & @ScriptDir & '\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe" "' & $Path & '" --title "TEST és book" --authors "some body""')

Don't know why I didn't think of that hours ago, it obviously makes this a lot simpler

[kisstom]

Believe it or not, but you used the quotes incorrectly  (/edit: and you forgot to put a space between the exe and the path)

Run(@ComSpec & " /k """"" & @ScriptDir & "\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe """ & $Path & """ --title ""TEST és book"" --authors ""some body"" """"")

 

​Not working

But this working:

Run(@ComSpec & ' /k ""' & @ScriptDir & '\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe" "' & $Path & '" --title "TEST és book" --authors "some body""')

Did you find a tutorial how this syntax working?

I really do not understand  but i made another variable to work

$Path = "c:\test folder\test.mobi"
$Title = "TEST és book"
Run(@ComSpec & ' /k ""' & @ScriptDir & '\Calibre\ebook-meta.exe" "' & $Path & '" --title "' & $Title & '" --authors "some body""')

Edit: I just implement this into my program and it's working.

Thank you

Edited June 11, 2015 by kisstom