Automatic Open & Save

[Coleccionista]

You all know how Sigil even if you don't make any change to the epub rewrites the content.opf file and reorganizes the content into OEBPS , Text and Images folders.
I'd like know if there is any way I can automate the "open&save" of numerous files (in several folders) with Sigil.
I am running Windows and I know that you can command certain programs from a script (notably MS Office) and others have command-line options to perform different tasks.
If it's not possible in Windows but it's possible in Linux I'm also interested

Basically I want to use Sigil to clean unwanted/unused files from many ebooks and doing it by hand it's not feasible. If you know of a different program that's OK too.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Coleccionista

You all know how Sigil even if you don't make any change to the epub rewrites the content.opf file and reorganizes the content into OEBPS , Text and Images folders.
I'd like know if there is any way I can automate the "open&save" of numerous files (in several folders) with Sigil.
I am running Windows and I know that you can command certain programs from a script (notably MS Office) and others have command-line options to perform different tasks.
If it's not possible in Windows but it's possible in Linux I'm also interested

Basically I want to use Sigil to clean unwanted/unused files from many ebooks and doing it by hand it's not feasible. If you know of a different program that's OK too.

There is now a plugin for Calibre (7.32) that opens the epub in editor of your choice.

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by theducks

There is now a plugin for Calibre (7.32) that opens the epub in editor of your choice.

Marvellous though it is that won't help him with automation though.

Looking at the source code for Sigil, there is a comment as follows "undocumented, unsupported *-to-epub console conversion. USE AT YOUR OWN PERIL!". So bear that in mind if you give it a go

It works like this:
sigil.exe %1 %2 %3
%1 - Absolute path to the input file
%2 - seems to not be used, put anything as a placeholder like foo
%3 - Absolute path to the output file

e.g.
sigil.exe d:\input.epub foo d:\output.epub

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Marvellous though it is that won't help him with automation though.

Looking at the source code for Sigil, there is a comment as follows "undocumented, unsupported *-to-epub console conversion. USE AT YOUR OWN PERIL!". So bear that in mind if you give it a go

It works like this:
sigil.exe %1 %2 %3
%1 - Absolute path to the input file
%2 - seems to not be used, put anything as a placeholder like foo
%3 - Absolute path to the output file

e.g.
sigil.exe d:\input.epub foo d:\output.epub

For the life of me I can't remember what the second argument was supposed to achieve. I remember that it was doing something, but now it's clearly unused.

Either way, the disclaimer needs to be stated more forcefully:

This feature officially does not exist and never will. It might cease to exist (even unofficially) at any time. It might produce garbage. It might eat your children. It might cause demons to come out of your nose. It's undocumented and unsupported! I don't want to hear even a hint of a bug report about it. USE AT YOUR OWN PERIL!

Did I mention you shouldn't use it?

[Coleccionista]

Ok, I will stay clear of the hidden evil inside Sigil unless I really must use it

I am going to try to script the interaction with PowerShell or if it does not cut it I'll give AutoIt also a try.

Thanks all for your comments.