How about this:
ace.pl -e 'parse' *.ace
Lincoln
Dave Matthews writes:
> > ace.pl actually doesn't implement the parse command (it accepts it,
> > but nothing happens), but I can add it easily enough. I can add the
> > globbing feature to it too
>
> Sounds good. Though it seems like it would be tidier to put the feature
> inside tace itself.
>
> Alternatively for my purpose it would be just as good if tace commands
> could be passed to it as a parameter from the shell commandline. Or if it
> could read commands from a file. (Or can it already do this and I just
> didn't know?)
>
> In Unix, I load all the ace files in the rawdata directory with a shell
> script like this:
>
> foreach acefile (`ls $ACEDB/rawdata/*.ace`)
> tace <<DONE
> parse $acefile
> DONE
>
> I don't know if DOS has the equivalent of "<<" command redirection. Maybe
> it does. Or maybe there's some other way to skin this cat?
>
>
> (Has AcePerl been tried out under Windows?)
>
> - Dave
>
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