Re: [Gpsbabel-code] GPSBabel+ and batch file processing

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Karl Smith <thr...@gm...> wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Robert Lipe wrote:
>
>  No, it doesn't.
>>
>> If you want to batch process things, automating via Automater,
>> AppleScript, or shell scripting
>> is the way to go.
>>
>
> Robert,
> Hmm, has there been any interest in supporting file globbing for the input
> parameter within gpsbabel?
>

None by me.   Since various OSes have different globbing rules, doing it
inside GPSBabel instead of
just letting the shells do it seems wrong.


If you're worried about blowing out line length limits on the shells, take a
look at
  http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.6/batchfile.html

...it shouldn't be too hard to get a wrapper to build those, pre-globbed.