invalid argument or permission denied on Windows with specific paths

[GiantCrocodile]

I'm not sure if this is a bug but I saw that if I do this:

pandoc -f html -o bla.pdf ./

I get an pandoc: ./: openBinaryFile: permission denied (Permission denied) error. If I do this:

pandoc -f html -o bla.pdf *.md or pandoc -f html -o bla.pdf ".*.md" or pandoc -f html -o bla.pdf .*.md or pandoc -f html -o bla.pdf *.md I get an

pandoc: .*.md: openBinaryFile: invalid argument (Invalid argument)

Not sure this is a specific Windows platform issue. What I tried or expected: Specify whole directory as source or to include all files with specific ending (md) as source. I'm sorry if this is expected behavior!

This happens with latest nightly.

[mb21]

AFAIK this is expected behaviour on Windows since the wildcard is specific to unix bash. See:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/pandoc-discuss/eMfCGU3Gn8E/lHfxTydaAwAJ -
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27852067/batch-convert-files-with-pandoc-in-windows

[GiantCrocodile]

Thanks for linking this @mb21. I didn't found that. So the current solution for Win users is Ryan Gray's way?

@echo off
:: Pandoc wrapper for calling it with wildcard file parameters.
:: Expands any arguments containing wildcards according to standard
:: Windows CMD.exe conventions.
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set pandoc_cmd=pandoc
for %%I in (%*) do set pandoc_cmd=!pandoc_cmd! "%%~I"
!pandoc_cmd!
endlocal

[mb21]

Yes, pretty sure jgm's comment there still applies:

Yes, on second thought I'm just going to revert that commit

e.g. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/search?q=globbing+windows&type=Commits

[le-dawg]

Thanks for linking this @mb21. I didn't found that. So the current solution for Win users is Ryan Gray's way?

@echo off
:: Pandoc wrapper for calling it with wildcard file parameters.
:: Expands any arguments containing wildcards according to standard
:: Windows CMD.exe conventions.
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set pandoc_cmd=pandoc
for %%I in (%*) do set pandoc_cmd=!pandoc_cmd! "%%~I"
!pandoc_cmd!
endlocal

How do I use this correctly ? My makefile has the unexpanded wildcards and i call pandoc from there.
I.e.
make pdf
-> makefile:
pandoc "$(INPUTDIR)"/*.md \
-o "$(OUTPUTDIR)/$(STDNO)-$(FIRST)$(LAST)-