batch file help

[agidius]

I am trying get the postprocessing.bat file to transcode a video and move it to another folder ONLY if it is a certian show. I know people have mentioned here before about using the IF command in batch files. I have spent the last few days reading articles on the web and experimenting with it, but cant get anything to work.
I seem to get either nothing to pass the IF, or everything passes it.

can somebody that has got something like this working please post the commands so I can see what a working IF looks like??
(or any similar command if you dont use IF)

thanks

[stefan]

Does this example help you?
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=16589

[agidius]

wow, that looks like alot of greek to me

I messed with it for a while, and I got the if command to work like this:

Code:

IF %1=="C:\Video Archive\Robot Chicken\Robot Chicken_20060930_22302245.mpg" GOTO ROBOT
exit
:ROBOT
call "C:\Documents and Settings\ken\Desktop\sucess.bat"
pause

it will run sucess.bat only if that one file is the argument.

any future recordings will not have the same numbers at the end.
I need to find a way to put wildcards in the end of the filename so it will process all future recordings.
if I replace any characters with ? or * then it fails.

apparently the reason the IF command didnt work for me before was I was trying to use wildcards.

any ideas??

[stefan]

Hmm... this is a long shot; I don't know much about windows batch script programming, but you could try something like this:

Edit: This was so emarassingly hard, I had to delete my suggestion

[stefan]

Maybe IF doesn't work that way... I have another idea if it doesn't... keep me posted.

[stefan]

Hm... my suggestion does not work at all... sorry...

[daveid]

can't you just use a wildcard like

Code:

IF %1=="C:\Video Archive\Robot Chicken\Robot Chicken[B]*[/B].mpg" GOTO ROBOT
exit
:ROBOT
call "C:\Documents and Settings\ken\Desktop\sucess.bat"
pause

[Carlito]

hahaha, Robot Chicken..love it!

[-stattik-]

Code:

if exist "%~dp1Robot Chicken*" goto transcode:
goto eof:

:transcode <transcode parameters go here>

:eof

[agidius]

the wildcard in the name does not work.
it fails every time.

IF EXIST will process any file as long as the file asked about exists.
so it will process robot chicken, AND every file after it as long as robot chicken is still there.

I dont want to delete the original, just make another.