simple xmlstarlet example to copy files - terminal

Question

Windows Command Prompt. I want to do the following in a ONE-LINER COMMAND.
i want to set a variable with a simple xml structure:
<pathlist>
<path>C:\file.txt</path>
<path>C:\file2.txt</path>
</pathlist>
like this:
SET "_myvar=^<pathlist^>^<path^>C:\file.txt^</path^> ^<path^>C:\file2.txt^</path^>^</pathlist^>"
then i want to echo this and pipe it to xmlstarlet:
echo !_myvar!|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "//path"
then the result should be put into another var sourcefiles, with a for loop?
for /f %i in ('call echo %^_myVar%^|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*" ') do set sourcefiles=%i
and finally pscp sourcefile to a remote Unix
pscp -l user-pw password %sourcefiles% openstack#remoteIP:/opt/testfolder
i cannot use temporary files for this taks, i tried this:
SET "_myVar=^<pathlist^>^<path^>C:\file1.txt^</path^> ^<path^>C:\file2.txt^</path^>^</pat
hlist^>"& for /f %i in ('cmd /v:on /c echo !_myVar!|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*" ') do set sourcefiles=%i &&cmd /v:on /
c pscp -l user -pw password %sourcefiles% openstack#remoteIp:/opt/testfolder
and get this error:
| was unexpected at this time.
the problem is when i want to echo the var content to xmlstarlet, i think. Anybody know how to solve this?
Edit
using call echo instead of cmd /v:on in a slighty simplified command i get this error:
SET "_myVar=^<pathlist^>^<path^>C:\file1.txt^</path^> ^<path^>C:\file2.txt^</path^>^</pat
hlist^>"& 'call echo ^^%^_myVar!%^^|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*"
error:
-:1.1: Document is empty
^
-:1.1: Start tag expected, '<' not found
^

Answer 1

SET "_myVar=^<pathlist^>^<path^>C:\file1.txt^</path^> ^<path^>C:\file2.txt^</path^>^</pathlist^>"& for /f %i in ('cmd /v:on /c echo !_myVar!^|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*" ') do set sourcefiles=%i &&cmd /v:on /c pscp -l user -pw password %sourcefiles% openstack#remoteIp:/opt/testfolder
should fix your | was unexpected at this time. error. The only change is to escape the pipe with ^, which tells cmd that the pipe is part of the command, not an instruction to cmd.
My focus was on the error-report about the pipe.
What I found was that echo doesn't line < as the first character of the string being echoed - so I toyed around with it a while.
And then I cut the grass and cleaned up the yard a bit.
And then I thought - well, how about sed? I use GNUSED, and since you're outputting to a *Nix system, the world of SED shouldn't be too fearsome.
How about - as a batch file,
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET "uname=%~1"&shift
SET "pass=%~1"&shift
SET "sourcefiles="
SET "_myVar=*pathlist?"
:dirloop
IF "%~1" neq "" SET "_myvar=%_myvar% *path?%~1*/path?"&shift&GOTO dirloop
SET "_myvar=%_myvar%*/pathlist?"
for /f %%i in ('echo %_myvar%^|sed s/\x2a/\x3c/g^;s/\x3f/\x3e/g^|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*" ') do ECHO %%i&set "sourcefiles=!sourcefiles! %%i"
ECHO pscp -l %uname% -pw %pass% %sourcefiles% openstack#remoteIp:/opt/testfolder
Which you could execute as a single line
thisbatch user password path1 path2 path3...
(yeah - the pscp is just being echoed for verification...)
or, for an all-in-one-line version, which I'll spread over several for clarity's sake (and because I wrote it in a "DOS" session):
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET "_myvar=*pathlist?*path?C:\file.txt*/path? *path?C:\file2.txt*/path?*/pathlist?"
SET "sourcefiles="
for /f %%i in ('echo %_myvar%^|sed s/\x2a/\x3c/g^;s/\x3f/\x3e/g^|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*" ') do set "sourcefiles=!sourcefiles! %%i"
ECHO pscp -l user -pw password !sourcefiles! openstack#remoteIp:/opt/testfolder
SInce * and ? can't be used as legitimate filename characters, including them in the string set into the environment, then using echo to send *? to sed which converts them to <> for input to xmlstarlet - now that might work (but I don't have xmlstarlet for testing - I conclude it simply outputs a list of some variety...)
Note the ^ to escape the ; in the sed command!
Here's the all-in-one-line version that may work
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION&SET "_myvar=*pathlist?*path?C:\file.txt*/path? *path?C:\file2.txt*/path?*/pathlist?"&SET "sourcefiles="&(for /f %%i in ('echo %_myvar%^|sed s/\x2a/\x3c/g^;s/\x3f/\x3e/g^|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*" ') do set "sourcefiles=!sourcefiles! %%i")&pscp -l user -pw password !sourcefiles! openstack#remoteIp:/opt/testfolder
but I've no way of testing this in your environment.
Here's the line I used:
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION&SET "_myvar=*pathlist?*path?C:\file.txt*/path? *path?C:\file2.txt*/path?*/pathlist?"&SET "sourcefiles="&(for /f %%i in ('echo %_myvar%^|sed s/\x2a/\x3c/g^;s/\x3f/\x3e/g^|xmlstarlet sel -t -v "/*" ') do set "sourcefiles=!sourcefiles! %%i")&pscp -l user -pw password !sourcefiles! openstack#remoteIp:/opt/testfolder
I used a batch file called xmlstarlet.bat
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
ECHO phial1.txt
ECHO phial2.txt
ECHO phial3.txt
ECHO phial4.txt
ECHO phial5.txt
which should simply produce 5 lines of output when run
I used a batch file called pscp.bat
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
ECHO running PSCP
ECHO %*
PAUSE
And the result was:
running PSCP
-l user -pw password phial1.txt phial2.txt phial3.txt phial4.txt phial5.txt openstack#remoteIp:/opt/testfolder
Press any key to continue . . .