[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Add -recursive option to PROLIB

[Marko Myllymäki]

1) When extracting files from a procedure library (.pl), you need to have the directory structure already created as explained here: Progress KB - How to extract files from a procedure library ? This can be time consuming. Scripts can be made to avoid manual work, but it would be best if "prolib libname.pl -extract *.*" created the required directory structure automatically. 2) When adding new files into a .pl, it is annoying that you can't add all files in the directory structure in one command. For example: prolib libname.pl -add OpenEdge\*.* adds files only in OpenEdge directory, not its sub directories. So you would have to handle all sub directories separately like: prolib libname.pl -add OpenEdge\*.* prolib libname.pl -add OpenEdge\Core\*.* prolib libname.pl -add OpenEdge\Net\*.* and so on. So, my request is to have recursion handling in both extract and add/replace, either by default or with a new argument ("-recursive", for instance).

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