How to? Return list of SELECTed files

[Joe Caverly]

select set theFiles=(*.*) & set thefile

...returns not all of the files that I have selected,
but after pressing return,
just the last file that I have selected is stored in the environment variable thefiles.

thefiles=hb.prg

How can I store a list of the selected files into the environment variable thefiles using the SELECT command?

Joe

 

[vefatica]

For that you might need a custom command. I did this.

alias setthem `do f in %$ (set TheFiles=%theFiles %f)`

Then

select setthem (*.txt)

After pressing Enter, I had this.

v:\> set theFiles
 wprcommands.txt wprtimes.txt wtthemesfortcmd.txt xxxfiles.txt

 

[vefatica]

Even easier:

select `set theFiles=` [*.btm]

v:\> set theFiles
 coupon.btm coupon2.btm coupon3.btm