How to convert a batch file(.bat) to script file(.sh)

manas_sem · 06-28-2007, 06:52 AM

hi,

How to convert a batch file(.bat) to script file(.sh)..

Thanx

Simon Bridge · 06-28-2007, 06:55 AM

You don't.
Instead, you think what you want to achieve and then write a script for it.

b0uncer · 06-28-2007, 06:56 AM

Manually or automatically?

Manually it's rather easy so automating the task shouldn't be a problem..just turn those exec or start lines into bash equivalents (if you're going to run it in bash), \ to / and so on..oh, and notice that capitals do make difference. There are some summaries on the net about Linux<->DOS command equivalencies, using them it should be easy.

After it's done,

Code:

chmod +x batchfile.sh

and you're ready to go.

chrism01 · 06-28-2007, 06:59 AM

You may want to read the relevant parts of this: http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz ,
also this: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

paulsm4 · 06-28-2007, 12:10 PM

Hi -

Simon Bridge is absolutely right: "You don't". You need to take whatever you were doing in the .bat file, and completely re-write it to do the equivalent in Linux.

In order to do this (as b0uncer and chrism01 both pointed out), you need to know two things:

a) Some basic "shell script" syntax (for example, "bash" or "sh" syntax)
b) Some basic Linux commands (for example, "ls", "cat", ..., "awk", "sed", ...)

Here (in addition to the links already cited) is another beginner's tutorial that might help :

http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/li...features/lsst/