copy search results using command line

[ChrisGreaves]

Win10/Everything 1.5.0.1315a(x64)
I am stumbling in my first effort to use the command-line access to Everything.
I read through the topic copy search results using command line and ran the following DOS command with the results shown:-

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I suppose that my file mask *.pdf is augmented by the folder taken from the command line; since my CMD prompt is in T:\, Everything assumes that I want to search in the root folder T:\, whereas I want to search all my drives.

Background: I write in MSWord2003/VBA, and deal with DOCuments with {IncludePicture} fields. Sometimes the target image goes missing (always MY fault), and I will automate a process to search DOCuments, and locate each {IncludePicture} field that is asking for a non-existent file.
At this point I thought to construct and execute a simple BATch file command and obtain a short list of locations where the file can be found, and then (VBA) be copied into the appropriate folder.

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With the results shown above, my VBA will decide which image to use and then COPY it across.

I feel sure that my little knowledge of Command-line use of Everything is throwing up a small hurdle. I have not made use of Everything command line running until today.

Thanks for any tips.
Chris

[horst.epp]

Look in the help for the command line switches.
For your case using the Everything command line tool es.exe is the better way.

With Everything itself I use the following line in a file manager
Everything.exe -s nopath:exact:#quote:#[basename:"%S1"#]:
%S1 is the file to be searched.

[ChrisGreaves]

For your case using the Everything command line tool es.exe is the better way.

Thanks Horst.
I did not have ES.exe on my system, and have now downloaded (and unzipped it).
This topic from 2016 describes my new problem, so I will pursue that.
I have another option which is to use my own file-finding routine I wrote in VBA twenty years ago.
Cheers, Chris

[void]

If you are using ES with the Everything 1.5 alpha, please try the following search:

es.exe -instance "1.5a" *.pdf | clip.exe



-or-

Disable the 1.5a instance if you are not using Everything 1.4:

• In Everything, from the File menu, click Exit.
• From the Start menu, search for: notepad
• Right click Notepad and click Run as administrator.
• In Notepad, from the File menu, click Open.
• Select your Everything-1.5a.ini in the same location as your Everything.exe and click Open.
• Change the following line:
  /alpha_instance=1
• to:
  /alpha_instance=0
• Restart Everything.

now you can use the following search with ES:

es.exe *.pdf | clip.exe



ES
Everything GUI command line options