How do I convert a bash shell script to a .bat file? [closed]

Answer 1

You should convert by hand. Learn batch commands, then do the equivalent. Alternatively, you can use GNU win32 unix tools.

Answer 2

The windows shell is a different scripting language than the bash shell. You will need to port it. Alternatively, you could use something like cygwin or mingw to run the bash shell on windows.

Answer 3

You can also use Git for Windows, which already has a Bash shell built-in (GitBash)

Answer 4

F1 help on windows is surprisingly useful when writing DOS style batch files. From the windows desktop, hit F1 and search for batch. The link for Using Batch Parameters is pretty helpful for doing odd tricks with DOS. The 'Using Batch Files' page is also quite good. As other posters mention, you're better off avoiding batch as your implementation language, but if you must, you must.

Answer 5

Actually, the things you mention are trivial to port to a Windows batch file. While you certainly can use Windows ports of all Unix tools (or even use an emulation layer for even more fun) this is not hard to do:

1. ~ for the user's home folder

   The user's profile resides in the environment variable %USERPROFILE%, so the following should do it:

   cd %USERPROFILE%\Documents\DropFolder
   

2. Iterating over a set of files

   The for command is helpful here:

   for %%i in (*.xml) do -Xss650K -Xms128m -Xmx2048m -jar ... %%i
   

   Obviously you need to adapt the path to the JAR file, though.

   And for has many more uses beyond this one, so take a look at help for as well.

3. basename

   You need to do this either in a subroutine or a for loop, as the following syntax is specific to loop variables or parameters. It won't work with environment variables as is. You can get what basename is giving you by using %%~ni where %%i if the loop variable or %~n1 if %1 is the argument to a subroutine or batch file you have. So the following would probably do the same:

   copy "%%~ni.xml" "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\ReadyForServer\%%~ni\"
   

   The help on for has more information over those things near the end.