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kovidgoyal · 05-06-2011, 12:32 AM

You rather than giving yourself a hernia jumping through microsoft hoops, why dont you just use a decent script language instead of BAT. You can even do it with calibre itself for example:

Create a .py file called myscript.py

Code:

import subprocess, sys

# Command line arguments ar in sys.argv
print 'Command line arguments', sys.argv

subprocess.check_call(['ebook-convert', sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]])
subprocess.check_call(['ebook-viewer', sys.argv[2]])

Now run this script with

Code:

calibre-debug -e myscript.py input_file.epub output_file.epub

This will run ebook-convert for you and open the result in the viewer.

I'm sure you can figure out the rest.

05-06-2011, 12:32 AM	#10
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,411 Karma: 27757236 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You rather than giving yourself a hernia jumping through microsoft hoops, why dont you just use a decent script language instead of BAT. You can even do it with calibre itself for example: Create a .py file called myscript.py Code: import subprocess, sys # Command line arguments ar in sys.argv print 'Command line arguments', sys.argv subprocess.check_call(['ebook-convert', sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]]) subprocess.check_call(['ebook-viewer', sys.argv[2]]) Now run this script with Code: calibre-debug -e myscript.py input_file.epub output_file.epub This will run ebook-convert for you and open the result in the viewer. I'm sure you can figure out the rest.