The File below:
; Install common files
SetOutPath "${GameDir}\Mopy"
File /r /x "*.bat" /x "*.py*" /x "w9xpopen.exe" /x "Wrye Bash.exe" "Mopy\*.*"
filters out some directories that contain python files but still those directories are created (although empty, or containing empty subdirectories) when I run the installer. Those folders need to be included to the installer (if I get the terminology correct at "compile time") cause the installer has an option to install the python version of the program. I can't come up with a way to not add these empty folders. Is there some wildcard I could use to that purpose or should I go and remove the files on installation (using RMDir ?) ?
I'd say you have two options and one is indeed RMDir if you are OK with it possibly removing empty folders that the user created.
The other option is to not use File /r ... and instead use !system to execute something like a batch file that generates a text file with individual File instructions that you can !include. It would look something like this:
!tempfile files
!system '"mygeneratefilelist.bat" "${files}"'
!include "${files}"
!delfile "${files}"
and the batch file would use FOR and/or DIR to list and ECHO the File commands to %1...
Related
I need to write a script that synchronizes local files with a remote machine.
My file structure is:
ProjectFolder/
.git/
input/
output/
classes/
main.py
readme.md
I need to synchronize everything, but:
completely ignore .git folder
ignore files in input and output folders, but copy the folder
So far my code is:
open sftp://me:password#server -hostkey="XXXXXXXX"
option batch abort
option confirm off
synchronize remote "C:\Users\MYNAME\Documents\MY FOLDER\Python Projects\ProjectFolder" "/home/MYNAME/py_proj/ProjectFolder" -filemask="|C:\Users\MYNAME\Documents\MY FOLDER\Python Projects\ProjectFolder\.git"
close
exit
First question: it doesn't seems to work.
Second question, how to add mask for input and output folder if I have spaces in file paths?
Thanks to all in advance.
Masks for directories have to end with a slash.
To exclude files in a specific folder, use something like */folder/*
-filemask="|.git\;*/input/*;*/output/*"
I would like to use on a batch file a directory path that will change from people to people (it is inside a shared folder) and need to access a grand parent folder.
Right now I have the following:
"%CD%\R\R-3.4.2\bin\i386\R.exe" CMD BATCH "%CD%\run.R"
this works when R folder is on the same level as run.R file. But now I want to use the following structure:
-R
-dashboards/folder1/run.R
ie, R folder and dashboards folder are on the same level, and run.R is two levels below inside dashboards folder.
I'm asking for help to wright the correct directory to my R folder on the batch file.
Thanks in advance
If you put the code at the end of this answer in a Windows batch file it will run run.R provided that
run.R is in the current directory and
R is referenced in the registry (which would be the case for a default R install)
Optionally the user can specify the location of R by defining the R_HOME batch variable to point to the current version of R
set R_HOME=C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.1
... now run batch file ...
They might want to do that if R is not in the registry or if they have multiple versions of R and don't want to use the currently registered one. In the usual case that would not be necessary.
This effectively decouples the location of R and the location of run.R allowing it to be placed anywhere independently of the location of R.
#echo off
setlocal
if not defined R_HOME for /f "tokens=2*" %%a in (
'reg query hklm\software\wow6432Node\r-core\r /v InstallPath 2^>NUL ^| findstr InstallPath'
) do set R_HOME=%%~b
"%R_HOME%\bin\R" BATCH run.R
I have a directory structure that needs to be added to the installer. I have 3 different versions of my install script, and one of them being an upgrade script, requires excluding a certain file and a subdirectory within my install directory.
So I do the following:
File /r /x ${InputDir}\data\someFile.xml /x ${InputDir}\data\derbydb\runtime\*.* ${InputDir}\*.*
The xml file and the derbydb directory are already present (since this is an upgrade) and hence I don't want to overwrite them. Yet on running the installer I clearly see that both files are overwritten, and moreover viewing the generated setup.exe with 7zip shows that they got added as well. One may as well have just called
File /r ${InputDir}\*.*
So what's going wrong here? I wish NSIS would have better documentation or list caveats with
their command parameters/syntax. (/rant)
NSIS manual (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html) section 4.9.1.5 File contains the following:
Use the /x switch to exclude files or directories.
I tried to use different variants, but only one worked:
SetOutPath $INSTDIR
File /r /x Config ..\MyProgram\*.*
where "Config" is a directory "MyProgram\Plugins\Config".
NSIS searches only by name and it will be wrong to set any subfolders (e.g. "/x Plugins\Config" or "/x $INSTDIR\MyProgram\Plugins\Config\"). There is one lack: if you have the same folders in different directories, using the /r switch, both matching directories and files will be searched.
I find that
File /x "${DIRECTORY}Foo.img" "${DIRECTORY}*.img"
does NOT exclude Foo.img at compilation time - it is included with the other .img files.
Finally cracked it after pulling some of my hair out...
First exclude the whole sub directory from the *.*
File /r /x "subfolder" "C:\App\bin\*.*"
then change your output directory in to your subfolder...
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\subfolder"
then exclude the xml files...
File /r /x "*.xml" "C:\App\bin\subfolder\*.*"
and then set the output path back to how it was...
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
so it should look somthing like this...
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
File /r /x "subfolder" "C:\App\bin\*.*"
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\subfolder"
File /r /x "*.xml" "C:\App\bin\subfolder\*.*"
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
I think the problem is that you shouldn't be specifying the full path to the files to exclude just a pattern, so in other words the command should look like this:
File /r /x data\someFile.xml /x data\derbydb\runtime\*.* ${InputDir}\*.*
The /x is for excluding some files to be included in the installer at compile time.
If I understand correctly, you want to avoid the overwriting of files during the installation / upgrade at run time.
Thus you could use the SetOverwrite compiler flag before the File directive. Look at the manual section 4.8.2.8 SetOverwrite, the section 4.8.2 also shows a method to handle SetOverwrite dynamically.
var pname
!define pname "Salt v1.2.9.3c"
File /r /x small-games.info.url "E:\Games\${pname}\*.*"
include E:\Games\${pname}*.*, but exclude small-games.info.url in folders
It seems to me there's a bug which is that if you do:
File /r "C:\folder a\subfolder b"
File /r /x "subfolder b" "C:\folder b"
then C:\folder b\subfolder a\subfolder b will still get copied as part of the first operation.
working example for files = File /r /x *.jpg D:\Desktop\NSIS\Examples\wp_test_build*.
working example for folders = File /r /x Config D:\Desktop\NSIS\Examples\wp_test_build*.*
I found that I can use xcopy /s to copy all files that match a wildcard combination in a folder to another location. But this command re-creates the folder structure. I do not want the tree. I need just the files dumped into the destination folder. There are no duplicate files in the source folder.
You can use for command:
for /R %%x in (*.cpp) do copy "%%x" "c:\dest\"
If you want to run it directly from command prompt (not from a batch file) use %x instead of %%x.
For your purpose, instead of using xcopy you should use robocopy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(WS.10).aspx
Currently I am in my installing directory say c:\Program File\My installer.I have to execute a demo.bat file that is stored at some other location say c:\Program Files\Temp\example.bat,which I have to go at that location and execute coz my example.bat has some support files that are only stored in Temp folder.
My question is how can I change my installing directory to some other directory, execute demo.bat file and come back to my original installing directory while writing an nsis script?
When talking about "installing directory", I assume you mean current/working directory in the context of a batch file.
push $outdir ;save original path
SetOutpath "$programfiles\temp" ;set currect directory
nsExec::Exec "example.bat"
pop $outdir
SetOutpath $outdir ;restore
There are several ways to execute a batch file (Expand %comspec% and pass it to Exec/ExecWait, or use one of the exec plugins (nsExec,ExecDos,ExecCmd))