Newbie Question: Indicating multiple files...

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Corporate Dog
14th November 2001 17:25 UTC

Newbie Question: Indicating multiple files...
When building a script for NSIS, I was wondering if the following syntax was valid for identifying more than one file which I'd like to add to a distribution...

Section "Foobar"
SetOutPath "C:\DestDir"
File "C:\SourceDir\MyFile.txt" "C:\SourceDir\YourFile.txt" "C:\SourceDir\HisFile.txt"
SectionEnd

... or if I want to do multiple files, am I limited to using wildcards?

Regards,
Corporate Dog

Koen van de Sande
14th November 2001 17:57 UTC

Yes, you are limited to wildcards in one statement. If you want to do it like this, you have to use multiple file statements:


File "C:\SourceDir\MyFile.txt"
File "C:\SourceDir\YourFile.txt"
File "C:\SourceDir\HisFile.txt"

With wildcards it could possibly be:


File "C:\SourceDir\*.txt"

But then you'd either have to put them in a seperate folder, or you'll have to make sure these are the only txt files.

F. Heidenreich
14th November 2001 17:57 UTC

Hi,

according to the NSIS Documentation use:


Section "Foobar"
SetOutPath "C:\DestDir"
File "C:\SourceDir\MyFile.txt"
File "C:\SourceDir\YourFile.txt"
File "C:\SourceDir\HisFile.txt"
SectionEnd

Regards,
~ Flo

Corporate Dog
14th November 2001 18:26 UTC

Hmmm... alright. In that case, would there be some alternative way to pass in an unknown number of files on the compiler command line? I was originally going with a space delimited string of filenames passed in as a new symbol, but that's clearly not going to work.

The best I can come up with now, is to limit the number of files that can be identified on the command line (to maybe 10) and then add each of the filenames as new symbols.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

Koen van de Sande
14th November 2001 21:11 UTC

I'm not fully understading what you are trying to do. It would seem you want a 'flexible' script which does not have all files it contains set.

You could try something like:

Section SomeThing
  File MyFile.txt
  !include "filelist.nsh"
  File Anotherfile.txt
SectionEnd

Where the filelist.nsh file contains just a flexible number of files, like:
File SomeFIle.txt
File ANoteratnor.txt
and so on.

[Edit oops]
Instead of doing it on the commandline, you could first write it to the filelist.nsh file perhaps? (could even be done in batch files with echo statements and shift, though it won't win any beauty contests).

Corporate Dog
14th November 2001 22:37 UTC

Koen,

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Regards,
Corporate Dog

bballer182
15th November 2001 00:03 UTC

Or you could use the recursive function of adding a folder if the files were all in one folder but if not i guess that the .nsh would be the way to go.

Section "My Favorite Skins"
SectionIn 12
File /r "D:\Programs\WINAMP\Cool Skins"
SectionEnd

the "R" switch being added /r

WA3 and NSIS rock!