Using iwregen CLT to go to Subdirectories

Can I use the "iwregen" CLT to regenerate all of the files that exist in the subdirectories of a folder. I have tried using the following code. /iwhome/bin/iwregen /pathtoworkarea/foldername/*.*
and even * after the slash, just to get everything. But that doesn't work for me. I have to actually go into each and every subfolder to regenerate everything. Is there another way to do this. I am using Teamsite 4.5.1 . Please let me know

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Migrateduser

find /pathtoworkarea/foldername/ -type f -exec /iwhome/bin/iwregen {} \;

The above is pretty simplified. In actually a cleaner way would be to check and make sure each file found is actually a generated file before attempting to run iwregen on it, but the idea is the same.

iwregen is only meant to run on a single file or a list of files. Another option might be to use a script to build a list of file paths that you want regenerated and pass the file list to iwregen all at one time (instead of calling iwregen multiple times).

Adam Stoller

find /pathtoworkarea/foldername/ -type f -exec /iwhome/bin/iwregen {} \;
Actually, if you're on Unix, since iwregen will take multiple files, using xargs would probably be more efficient than using -exec ... {} \;:

find /areavpath/foldername/ -type f -print | xargs iw-home/bin/iwregen

(see man xargs for more details on its usage)

As near as I can tell - iwregen might only display an error message (and not exit with a non-zero status) when it is asked to process a non-TeamSite Templating generated file. While this might be considered a bug - it should allow you to do the above find command without worrying about it erroring out in the middle.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

mbjennings

Why does it not Regenerate all of the Templated files. I went inot teamsite and there are some files in the directory that are Generated Templated files, but they were not regenerated. Is this a bug also.

james1

If you use iwregen to regenerate a file based on Templating, then the file will NOT be overwritten if regenerating the file results in the exact same file contents as already exist in the file.

Perhaps this is why you perceive your files not getting regenerated?

-- James

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James H Koh
Interwoven Engineering