I want to use Evernote's ENScript.exe to create new notes, entering the text and title as arguments. The problem is that ENScript only allows the text to be entered via a file or via standard input.
For my current workaround I use a .bat file to write the argument to a file, then call ENScript with the /s argument pointing to the file to read it in, but that forces the default title to the temporary file's filename (a behavior I do not want).
So my question is: Is there a way to "fake" standard input on the Windows command line so that I can use an argument (passed from another program) to generate the note text? The beginnings of the script would be something like
ENScript.exe createNote /i %1
with the standard input following.
You are looking for a pipe operation that captures the output of one command and sends it as input to the next. This is a standard capability in most operating systems.
The pipe symbol for Windows CMD is |
Your script could be as simple as:
@echo %~2|@ENScript.exe createNote /i %1
If your script is called MakeNote.bat, you would call it like
MakeNote "your title" "This is the text of your note"
One can "fake" standard input by using redirection:
command args... < filename args...
where the < means input redirection ("read standard input from the filename after the < instead of the terminal").
(Note that old Windows or DOS programs may read straight from the terminal, making input redirection useless; this hopefully won't apply to something as recent as Evernote.)
For your example:
ENScript.exe < "%1"
Feel free to add more arguments before or after the redirection. For example, if your script will be called as script filename title, you will want to invoke ENScript /i "%2" < "%1".
