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Bertrand · 02-24-2022, 10:40 AM

Thanks.
That's what I ended up doing, using a for loop (the (big!) pipe didn't worked, thanks BetterRed

Now, it's working... partially.
One problem remains : some of my tags have spaces in their name, and I get strange results, or no result at all (nothing is exported).

For example : "Langue française"
In my library, I have 66 books with this tag, only 9 of them are exported.
"Littérature étrangère", 1057 books, only one book exported.
"Récits de voyages", 67 books, 4 books exported.

All other books having a tag with a single word are correctly exported, so I suspect the space in the name to be the culprit ?

Code:

set destfolder=I:\test
set searchtag="Littérature française"

calibre -s

del /s /q %destfolder% > nul

for /f %%A in ('calibredb search tags:"%searchtag%"') do (
calibredb export %%A ^
 --dont-asciiize --dont-save-cover --dont-write-opf ^
 --to-dir %destfolder% --progress ^
 --template "{author_sort} - {series}{series_index:0>2s|  | - } {title}"
  )

02-24-2022, 10:40 AM	#7
Bertrand Zealot Posts: 124 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: France Device: None	Thanks. That's what I ended up doing, using a for loop (the (big!) pipe didn't worked, thanks BetterRed Now, it's working... partially. One problem remains : some of my tags have spaces in their name, and I get strange results, or no result at all (nothing is exported). For example : "Langue française" In my library, I have 66 books with this tag, only 9 of them are exported. "Littérature étrangère", 1057 books, only one book exported. "Récits de voyages", 67 books, 4 books exported. All other books having a tag with a single word are correctly exported, so I suspect the space in the name to be the culprit ? Code: set destfolder=I:\test set searchtag="Littérature française" calibre -s del /s /q %destfolder% > nul for /f %%A in ('calibredb search tags:"%searchtag%"') do ( calibredb export %%A ^ --dont-asciiize --dont-save-cover --dont-write-opf ^ --to-dir %destfolder% --progress ^ --template "{author_sort} - {series}{series_index:0>2s\| \| - } {title}" )