FishSpeaker
16th November 2002 22:06 UTC

SetFileAttributes problem
I'm using NSIS 1.98.

The documentation says that SetFileAttributes accepts wildcards. When I try to use them, however, the command doesn't work, and the errors flag is set. Using the command without wildcards works.

For example:

; this doesn't work
SetFileAttributes "$INSTDIR\subDir\*.*" READONLY

; this works
SetFileAttributes "$INSTDIR\subDir\somefile.txt" READONLY


Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Yathosho
17th November 2002 00:55 UTC

you could do a loop detecting every single file in the dir and change the attributes of each.

kichik
17th November 2002 16:45 UTC

It's not a bug. The documentation is just wrong.
Like killahbite said, you can make a loop using FindFirst, FindNext and FindNext and change them one by one.

FishSpeaker
17th November 2002 21:39 UTC

thanks guys

virtlink
18th November 2002 11:18 UTC

Originally posted by kichik
It's not a bug. The documentation is just wrong.
Like killahbite said, you can make a loop using FindFirst, FindNext and FindNext and change them one by one.

kichik
18th November 2002 14:22 UTC

Microsoft doesn't support this and I won't include wildcards support inside NSIS, that's not necessary.

Mottel
19th November 2002 06:31 UTC

Exec Attrib ...
Couldn't you Exec the Attrib command to do it?

Smile2Me
19th November 2002 09:08 UTC

Then you should also log output to some temp file (and delete it) otherwise a dos box will pop up.

But I can remember I wrote some function for these things (changing all attributes in a specific dir), but I do not have the source with me now. Maybe it is on Sunjammers site. I would propose you have a look there.

:-H

[edit]
OK, here's the link: http://www.clantpa.co.uk/nsis/wiki/index.php/Attrib
[/edit]

bugfix
24th November 2002 10:14 UTC

My solution to the the same problem is to use the
execshell attrib
:)