Output path %O for plugins - relative?

External Plugins
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Using the BOM generator as follows

xsltproc -o "%O.csv" "C:\Users\Greg\Documents\KiCad\6.0\scripting\plugins\bom2grouped_csv_jlcpcb.xsl" "%I"

This puts the output file in my project folder, but I would like it to go to a subfolder.

Is there a relative path option? All I’ve found in the help button is these options :

The command line format accepts parameters for filenames. The supported formatting parameters are: 

%B: base filename of selected output file, minus path and extension. 
%P: project directory, without name and without trailing '/'. 
%I: complete filename and path of the temporary input file (the intermediate net file). 
%O: complete filename and path (but without extension) of the user chosen output file.

Using this string
xsltproc -o "%P\gerber\bom.csv" "C:\Users\Greg\Documents\KiCad\6.0\scripting\plugins\bom2grouped_csv_jlcpcb.xsl" "%I"

I get this output

xsltproc -o "C:\Users\Greg\Desktop\megadesk\PCB\gerber\bom.csv" "C:\Users\Greg\Documents\KiCad\6.0\scripting\plugins\bom2grouped_csv_jlcpcb.xsl" "C:\Users\Greg\Desktop\megadesk\PCB\megadesk.xml"
Command error. Return code 11.
I/O error : Invalid argument
I/O error : Invalid argument
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That looks good to me, just make sure that the folder exists beforehand.

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It does.

Note using the default %O.csv, this it the output

xsltproc -o "C:/Users/Greg/Desktop/megadesk/PCB/megadesk.csv" "C:\Users\Greg\Documents\KiCad\6.0\scripting\plugins\bom2grouped_csv_jlcpcb.xsl" "C:\Users\Greg\Desktop\megadesk\PCB\megadesk.xml"
Success.

All I can see different is forward slash versus backward slash.

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Bah, indeed. It’s the slashes. I’ll open something on GitLab about generating forward slashes on Windows.

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This discussion seems related. Looks like some xslt processors are very picky about slashes on windows.

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