The only commands running on files without opening them in UltraEdit are
Find in Files and
Replace in Files. It is of course possible to use a macro or a script which first gets a list of full qualified file names of all files in a folder or a folder tree to process using
Find in Files and then opens one filter after the other for running the XML reformatting command, saving and closing the reformatted file.
I suggest to look on
GetListOfFiles for a script solution more or less ready to use on looking on the demo example.
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// === GetListOfFiles ========================================================
/* Script Name: GetListOfFiles
Creation Date: 2008-04-16
Last Modified: 2018-11-14
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2018 by Mofi
Original: https://www.ultraedit.com/resources/scripts/GetListOfFiles.js
http://forums.ultraedit.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=5442
The function GetListOfFiles creates in an edit window a list of files
according to the arguments passed to the function. It uses the command
Find in Files with advanced option Results to edit window for
creating the file list.
The return value of the function is true if a file list could be created
with at least one file name, otherwise false is returned by the function.
The new file with the file list is the active file and the caret is at top
of the file on success finding at least one file matching the criteria.
The function requires UltraEdit for Windows >= v13.10 or UEStudio >= v6.30.
Unicode file names are supported by UltraEdit for Windows >= v24.00 and
UEStudio >= v17.00. For former versions don't use this function on file names
containing a character not included in system code page for non-Unicode aware
applications and set value of variable bNoUnicode in the function below
to value true to get ANSI encoded file names.
The function expects 1 number, 2 strings and 1 boolean as input parameters:
1) nFileList - is the number which specifies the kind of file list
to be created by the function.
The possible values are:
0 ... get list of files in a specified directory.
1 ... get list of open files.
2 ... get list of favorite files.
3 ... get list of project files.
4 ... get list of solution files (only supported by UEStudio).
Value 0 is used by default if this parameter is not specified
at all, or is not of type number, or contains a wrong number.
The other three function parameters are evaluated only if 0 is used
for the first function parameter and should be omitted on using 1-4.
2) sDirectory - is the initial directory for the search.
The current working directory ".\" is used by the function if this
string is empty and a search in a directory is set by first parameter.
This parameter is ignored for all other file list types.
The working directory is by default the directory active on start
of UltraEdit/UEStudio. In the properties of a shortcut the working
directory can be specified in the edit field named "Start in".
3) sFileType - contains the file type specification like "*.txt" or
"ga*.htm;et*.htm".
This string is only used for the search in a specified directory.
"*" is used by the function if this parameter is not correct specified.
4) bSubDirs - is a boolean parameter which determines to find files only
in the specified directory with value false, or also in subdirectories
with value true.
This boolean is only used for the search in a specified directory.
The default value is false if the parameter is not correct specified.
NOTE:
An existing edit window from a previous Find in Files run is not closed
and therefore the results of the search for the file names are appended
to the existing content of the file. This makes it possible to run this
function multiple times with different values for the parameters to get
one large file list.
ATTENTION:
The first two strings in the function code below must be adapted to used
version of UE/UES if a localized version of UltraEdit or UEStudio is used
because otherwise the function does not work as designed. And the function
uses also a non-regular expression search and sets all find parameters as
needed for this search.
A debug message is shown by the function on an error condition if a global
variable named g_nDebugMessage exists and has the value 1 for debugging
to output window or 2 for debugging with message boxes. No debug messages
are displayed if there is no global variable with name g_nDebugMessage with
a valid value.
This function is copyright protected by Mofi for free usage by UE/UES
users. The author cannot be made responsible for any damage caused by
this function. You use it at your own risk.
HINT:
The list can be loaded into an array of file names with following code:
UltraEdit.activeDocument.selectAll();
var asFileNames = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection.split("\r\n");
// Last element of array is usually an empty string because all file
// names in the list are terminated usually with a DOS line termination.
// This empty string is removed from the array. The number of file names
// is then equal the number of array elements (length property).
if (asFileNames[asFileNames.length-1] == "") asFileNames.pop();
// The results file with the list of file names is no longer needed
// when using now the file names in the array asFileNames.
UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.activeDocument.path,2);
The main script can use next a for loop to open a found file, modify
the opened file, save and close it, and continue with next file until
all files have been modified. Extra code is needed to make the already
opened file active instead of opening it if it is possible that some of
the files in the list are already opened. For details see on forum topic
http://forums.ultraedit.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4596#p26710 the hint on
common mistake "Opening a file already open from within script does not
result in reloading file content and making the file active". */
function GetListOfFiles (nFileList, sDirectory, sFileType, bSubDirs)
{
/* The summary info line at bottom of a Find in Files result depends
on application language as also the name of the results file.
Please adapt the following two strings to your version of UE/UES.
Please click on ribbon tab "Advanced" or in menu "Advanced" on
"Settings" or "Configuration", expand tree item "Search" and select
item "Find output format" or "Set Find Output Format". The displayed
configuration dialog contains the "Find summary" definition at bottom
with the format string to assign below to variable sSummaryInfo.
Even better is executing once the command "Find in Files" with an
empty search string with advanced (gearwheel) option "Results to
edit window" checked. The "Find in Files" floating window or docked
view can be opened by
a) pressing default hotkey Ctrl+Shift+F;
b) clicking on ribbon tab "Home" in second group "Search" on
last item "Find/replace in files" on using ribbon mode;
c) clicking in menu "Home" on the menu item "Find/replace in files"
on using toolbar/menu mode with contemporary menus;
d) clicking in menu "Search" on menu item "Find/replace in files"
respectively "Find in Files" on using toolbar/menu mode with
traditional menus or UE
< v23.00 respectively UES < v16.00.
After running "Find in Files" with an empty search string listing
with results written to an edit window with at least one file name
in results window , look on file tab of results window and last
line in results file and adapt the two strings below accordingly.
It is also possible to just open GetListOfFiles.js and execute it with
Alt+Shift+R to see how the find results look like in used version of
UE/UES on having entered the parameters correct during script execution.
Please note that variable sSummaryInfo must be initialized with
an empty string on having disabled the "Find summary" completely. */
var sSummaryInfo = "Search complete. Found";
var sResultsDocTitle = "** Find Results ** "; // Note the space at end!
// The default strings for German UltraEdit are:
// var sSummaryInfo = "Suche abgeschlossen, ";
// var sResultsDocTitle = "** Suchergebnisse ** ";
/* Modify the value of this variable to true on using UltraEdit
for Windows < v24.00 or UEStudio < v17.00 which do not support
correct loading Unicode strings from Unicode files into memory. */
var bNoUnicode = false;
/* Determine the type of output for debug messages from the global
variable g_nDebugMessage: 1 ... debug to output window, 2 ... debug
to message dialog, all others ... no debug messages. A debug message
is displayed with a popup message box like on using the value 2 if
a global number variable g_nDebugMessage does not exist at all. */
var nOutputType = (typeof(g_nDebugMessage) == "number") ? g_nDebugMessage : 2;
if ((nOutputType < 1) || (nOutputType > 2)) nOutputType = 0;
if (typeof(nFileList) != "number" || nFileList
< 0 || nFileList > 4) nFileList = 0;
if (!nFileList) // Search in a specified directory?
{
// Use current working directory if no directory is specified.
if ((typeof(sDirectory) != "string") || (!sDirectory.length)) sDirectory = ".\\";
// Append a backslash if it is missing at end of the directory string.
else if (sDirectory[sDirectory.length-1] != "\\") sDirectory += "\\";
// Search for all files if no file type is specified.
if ((typeof(sFileType) != "string") || (!sFileType.length)) sFileType = "*";
if (typeof(bSubDirs) != "boolean") bSubDirs = false;
}
else
{
sDirectory = ""; // For the list of open, favorite, project
sFileType = ""; // or solution files the other 3 parameters
bSubDirs = false; // have always the same default values.
}
// Remember current regular expression engine.
var nRegexEngine = UltraEdit.regexMode;
/* A regular expression engine must be defined or the find
for the last line in the Unicode results could fail. */
UltraEdit.ueReOn();
/* Run a Find in Files with an empty search string to get the
list of files stored in the specified directory in an edit
window and delete the last line with the summary info. */
UltraEdit.frInFiles.directoryStart=sDirectory;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.filesToSearch=nFileList;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.matchCase=false;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.matchWord=false;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.regExp=false;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.searchInFilesTypes=sFileType;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.searchSubs=bSubDirs;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.unicodeSearch=false;
UltraEdit.frInFiles.useOutputWindow=false;
if (typeof(UltraEdit.frInFiles.openMatchingFiles) == "boolean")
{
UltraEdit.frInFiles.openMatchingFiles=false;
}
UltraEdit.frInFiles.find("");
/* The results of the search above are appended if the Find in Files
results window was already opened before running Find in Files. But
the results file does not get automatically the focus as it does if
there was no results file open from a previous search. Therefore care
must be taken that the file with the Find in Files results is the
active document after the search to continue on correct file. */
var bListCreated = false;
if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.path == sResultsDocTitle) bListCreated = true;
else
{
for (var nDocIndex = 0; nDocIndex
< UltraEdit.document.length; nDocIndex++)
{
if (UltraEdit.document[nDocIndex].path == sResultsDocTitle)
{
UltraEdit.document[nDocIndex].setActive();
bListCreated = true;
break;
}
}
}
if (bListCreated && sSummaryInfo.length)
{
// Search for the summary info at bottom of the results.
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.searchDown=false;
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.matchCase=true;
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.matchWord=false;
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.regExp=false;
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.find(sSummaryInfo);
bListCreated = UltraEdit.activeDocument.isFound();
}
UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.searchDown=true;
switch (nRegexEngine) // Restore original regular expression engine.
{
case 1: UltraEdit.unixReOn(); break;
case 2: UltraEdit.perlReOn(); break;
default: UltraEdit.ueReOn(); break;
}
/* Check next if the Find above was successful on finding last line in
the active document which should contain the Find in Files results. */
if (!bListCreated)
{
if (nOutputType == 2)
{
UltraEdit.messageBox('There is a problem with command frInFiles or the strings of the two script variables "sSummaryInfo" and "sResultsDocTitle" are not adapted to used version of UltraEdit/UEStudio!',"GetListOfFiles Error");
}
else if (nOutputType == 1)
{
if (!UltraEdit.outputWindow.visible) UltraEdit.outputWindow.showWindow(true);
UltraEdit.outputWindow.write('GetListOfFiles: There is a problem with command frInFiles or the strings of the two script variables');
UltraEdit.outputWindow.write(' "sSummaryInfo" and "sResultsDocTitle" are not adapted to used version of UltraEdit/UEStudio!');
}
return false;
}
// Delete last line in results file if line with summary info was found.
if (sSummaryInfo.length) UltraEdit.activeDocument.deleteLine();
UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
/* Next convert the file into an ASCII/ANSI file for better handling of
the file names by UltraEdit for Windows < v24.00 and UEStudio < v17.00.
Unicode file names are not supported by these versions of UE/UES. There
is no need for this conversion if the file with the results is already
an ASCII file from a previous execution of function GetListOfFiles. */
if (bNoUnicode)
{
UltraEdit.activeDocument.key("RIGHT ARROW");
if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.currentPos > 1) UltraEdit.activeDocument.unicodeToASCII();
else UltraEdit.activeDocument.top();
}
// No files were found if top of file is also end of file.
if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isEof())
{
if (nOutputType > 0)
{
var sMessage;
switch (nFileList)
{
case 0: sMessage = "No file " + sFileType + " was found in directory" +
((nOutputType == 2) ? "\n\n" : " ") + sDirectory; break;
case 1: sMessage = "There are no opened files."; break;
case 2: sMessage = "There are no favorite files."; break;
case 3: sMessage = "There are no project files or no project is opened."; break;
case 4: sMessage = "There are no solution files or no solution is opened."; break;
default: sMessage = ""; break;
}
if (nOutputType == 1)
{
if (!UltraEdit.outputWindow.visible) UltraEdit.outputWindow.showWindow(true);
UltraEdit.outputWindow.write("GetListOfFiles: "+sMessage);
}
else UltraEdit.messageBox(sMessage,"GetListOfFiles Error");
}
UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.activeDocument.path,2);
return false;
}
return true;
} // End of function GetListOfFiles
if (GetListOfFiles(0,"C:\\Path\\Folder\\","*.xml",true))
{
// If there was no error and files are found in the directory, the
// function made the search results output with the file names active.
// Select all lines in the file and load the file names into an array.
UltraEdit.activeDocument.selectAll();
var sLineTerm = "\r\n"; // Default line terminator type is DOS.
var nLineTermPos = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection.search(/\r\n|\n|\r/);
if (nLineTermPos >= 0) // Any line terminator found?
{
// The list file is a Unix file if first character found is a line-feed.
if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection[nLineTermPos] == '\n') sLineTerm = "\n";
// The list file is a Mac file if first character found is a carriage
// return and the next character is not a line-feed as in a DOS file.
else if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection[nLineTermPos+1] != '\n') sLineTerm = "\r";
}
var asFileNames = UltraEdit.activeDocument.selection.split(sLineTerm);
// The list is not needed anymore and therefore the results window is closed.
UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.activeDocument.path,2);
asFileNames.pop(); // Remove empty string at end of the list.
// Now open one file after the other, process it, save and close the file.
// No file in the list should be opened already on script start! Why?
// http://forums.ultraedit.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4596#p26710
// contains the answer on point 7 and the solution to enhance
// this script further if this is necessary in some cases.
for (var nFileIndex = 0; nFileIndex < asFileNames.length; nFileIndex++)
{
UltraEdit.open(asFileNames[nFileIndex]);
UltraEdit.activeDocument.xmlFormatDocument();
// Save and close the processed file.
UltraEdit.closeFile(UltraEdit.activeDocument.path,1);
}
}
The script worked on my test with UE v28.10.0.26 on a folder with 46 XML files with the exception of the last file. For some unknown reasons the last XML file in folder is opened by UltraEdit, but the XML reformatting and the file save is not done on last XML file. That is a very strange issue which I have to report to IDM support by email.
A macro solution would be also possible according to
Run Macro on all files within folder in theory with following macro code:
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InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
FindInFiles "C:\Path\Folder\\" "*.xml" ""
Loop 0
Find MatchCase Up "Search complete. Found"
IfFound
ExitLoop
Else
NextWindow
EndIf
EndLoop
DeleteLine
Top
Loop 0
IfEof
ExitLoop
EndIf
StartSelect
Key END
IfSel
Open "^s"
XMLFormatDocument
CloseFile Save
EndIf
EndSelect
DeleteLine
EndLoop
CloseFile NoSave
But the macro solution does not work because of UltraEdit for Windows v28.10.0.26 runs into a deadlock after having processed already some XML files and showing the
Cancel window although macro property
Show cancel dialog for this macro is not checked because of the macro took already more than two seconds for execution. This extra cancel feature was introduced with UltraEdit for Windows v26.20.
It helps to disable syntax highlighting, code folding and the XML parser in configuration before running the macro for even faster processing the XML files, but than UltraEdit crashes after having processed 25 files on my test. It looks like the macro solution is a bit too fast processed by UltraEdit.
I have to report the issue found with the script and the macro solution by email to IDM support.
I noticed also that the default summary string of a
Find in Files changed in the meantime. So the very long time standard "
Search complete, found" as used in script function
GetListOfFiles by default and in the macro code in referenced topic must be now "
Search complete. Found" with UltraEdit for Windows v28.10.
