Re: Gpsbabel - how to do all files in a directory
From: John Navas (spamfilter0_at_navasgroup.com)
Date: 08/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:03:20 GMT
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To get rid of the spaces:
Change \tmp\*.mps to "\tmp\*.mps"
Change %%X to %%~sX
Change %%~dpnX.txt to %%~sdpnX.txt
In <IwsXc.519766$Gx4.286681@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> on Thu, 26 Aug
2004 21:22:48 GMT, "Tom H." <tom_reader@att.nospam*.net> wrote:
>John,
>That worked like charm! The only thing that caused me a problem for a
>couple of minutes was taking the spaces out of my folder names and file
>names so the command interpreter would execute properly from the .bat file
>that I created.
>
>Tom
>"John Navas" <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
>news:4JoXc.9866$54.141842@typhoon.sonic.net...
>> [POSTED TO sci.geo.satellite-nav - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>>
>> gpsbabel doesn't seem to support filename wildcards, so you have to do
>this
>> programmatically; e.g., with a script or (with Windows NT/2000/XP command
>> extensions) batch file. In the latter case, the following example text
>would
>> be in a file with a .CMD extension:
>>
>> FOR %%X IN (\tmp\*.mps) DO gpsbabel -i mapsource -o text %%X
>%%~dpnX.txt
>>
>> The "\tmp\*.mps" creates a list of all files in the \tmp directory that
>have
>> ".mps" as the extension. ("*" is a 'wildcard' that matches any
>characters.)
>> The "FOR" command then processes that list, one file at a time, each time
>> substituting one of the filenames for "%%X". The "%%~dpnX.txt" is used to
>> build a corresponding output filename with the same drive-path-name ("dpn"
>> modifier on "X") plus ".txt" as the extension. Hence if \tmp contained
>> FILE1.MPS, FILE2.MPS, and FILE3.MPS, "FOR" would execute the following
>> commands:
>>
>> gpsbabel -i mapsource -o text \tmp\FILE1.MPS \tmp\FILE1.TXT
>> gpsbabel -i mapsource -o text \tmp\FILE2.MPS \tmp\FILE2.TXT
>> gpsbabel -i mapsource -o text \tmp\FILE3.MPS \tmp\FILE3.TXT
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> John Navas
>>
>> In <DOcXc.517073$Gx4.105763@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> on Thu, 26
>Aug
>> 2004 03:29:39 GMT, "Tom H." <tom_reader@att.nospam*.net> wrote:
>>
>> >I would like to convert all files in a directory and am having trouble
>> >interpreting how to get gpsbabel to convert a few Mapsource files to text
>> >files. The readme has the following statement:
>> >
>> >gpsbabel -i geo -f /tmp/geocaching.loc -o gpx -F /tmp/geocaching.gpx
>> >tells it to read the first file in geocaching.com format and create
>> > a new file in GPX format.
>> >
>> >I tried doing this as shown below
>> >
>> >C:\Program Files\gpsbabel>gpsbabel -i mapsource -f
>/tmp/mapsource.mps -o -F
>> >/tmp
>> >/text.txt
>> >MAPSOURCE cannot open '/tmp/mapsource.mps' for read. Error was 'No such
>> >file or
>> > directory'.
>> >
>> >I am not used to command line instructions, so I am probably
>interpreting
>> >the example command improperly. Can someone give me some help with more
>> >details on how to do this.
>> >
>> >TIA,
>> >Tom
>>
>
-- Best regards, John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
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