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Sqeezer
Sqeezer

Reputation: 1277

Run .bat in Linux environment

Is there any way to run .bat file in Linux environment? I have a couple of .bat files, the purpose of them is to call mvn install:install-file scripts. Thus nothing OS dependent is in the scripts.

Thank you,

Upvotes: 11

Views: 89716

Answers (8)

ensonic
ensonic

Reputation: 3450

Contrary to what others said, there is at least one interpreter for .bat files on linux: http://dcjtech.info/topic/winescript/

Upvotes: 0

Nobody
Nobody

Reputation: 3

You can run any batch file easily in linux with notepad++, you can find notepad++ in any linux app store. I had downloaded it from snap store which is for linux. Notepad++ have a option named run, it will run the batch file for you on any environment

Upvotes: 0

Md Ashraful Islam
Md Ashraful Islam

Reputation: 138

On Linux Terminal type

wine cmd

After that windows cmd will be played on your terminal. Go to the folder where your .bat file is located and type the bat files name and press enter. It will successfully run.

Upvotes: 4

Oleg Abrazhaev
Oleg Abrazhaev

Reputation: 2839

Install dosbox

sudo apt install dosbox

Run it with dosbox

Mount your home folder from your Linux os. Type inside dosbox

MOUNT D /home/<your user>

Switch folder drive

D:

Now if you have a file called my.bat in your user home directory, then inside doxbox just run it MY.BAT

Upvotes: 0

seguya
seguya

Reputation: 56

You could write the equivalent of your .bat script as a shell script.

Upvotes: -2

Chad Modad
Chad Modad

Reputation: 31

The simple answer is yes there is a way to run it on Linux as long as:

  • The commands you are running from the .bat file are in the $PATH on your Linux box
  • You are not using Microsoft specific BATCH file commands or control structures

You will need to make the file executable and most likely prepend the contents of the file with a line that tells Linux which shell to run the script with. Something like this for bash: #!/bin/bash

Upvotes: 3

favoretti
favoretti

Reputation: 30167

You can use wine or dosbox, but in general there is no known bat interpreter for linux. There are, however, implementations of various unix shells for windows, there's even a standard toolkit, Windows Services for UNIX (a.k.a. SUA), which include ksh implementation and many other nice goodies, so if you want it OS-transparent, you could consider using that and write your scripts in a POSIX-compliant shell scripting language.

--- edit --- On the other hand, if your script contains nothing else other than an mvn <params>, you can just make sure the file has execute permissions (x flag), prepend it with a shell interpreter (like /bin/bash script.bat) and have a go at it. Success not guaranteed, though.

Upvotes: 17

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 10786

No. The bat files are windows shell scripts, which probably execute windows commands and expect to run in a windows environment. You need to convert them to shell scripts in order to run them on linux, as your bash shell can not understand dos commands. Luckily, if the install file scripts are truly platform-independent, that should be easy. If you show an example, we may be able to help you translate.

Upvotes: -1

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