Node.js - child_process - How to specify not a specific file, but the file type *.doc && *.docx?

Question

JavaScript

Good people, help is needed!

var exec = require('child_process').exec;
exec('AbiWord.exe —to=html testdoc.docx');

Everything is fine here, everything works! but how to make it translate into html not specifically this file, but let's say all files of the .docx and (or) .doc type in a specific folder. Thank you! (PS *.docx doesn't work)

Answer 1

Scan a directory with files and run AbiWord in a loop, substituting file paths

Answer 2

As far as I understand, AbiWord only accepts one file per conversion. So it just needs to get *.doc(x) with a glob or whatever. Then call AbiWord via exec from each found file

Answer 3

It came out something like:

var exec = require('child_process').execFileSync; 
var abi = 'brain/AbiWord/bin/AbiWord.exe';
var fs = require('fs');
var dir2read = ('test');
fs.readdir(dir2read, function(err,files){
    if(err) throw err;
    files.forEach(function(file){
if (!err) 
exec(abi, [file, '--to=html']);
});
});

But in this case, he (abiword'u?) needs duplicate files in the root directory, otherwise he doesn't like the file name.... some kind of nonsense...