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wehnsdaefflae
wehnsdaefflae

Reputation: 906

Cross-platform command line script (e.g. .bat and .sh)

I noticed that Windows 7 enables to execute .sh files as if they were .bat files. That got me wondering whether it is possible to write a .sh file such that it can be executed in Windows and Linux (let's say bash).

The first thing that comes to my mind is to fabricate an if-statement such that Windows and Ubuntu can deal with it and jump into the according block to execute plattform-specific commands. How could this be done?

Note: I know this is not good practice. I also know that scripting languages like Python are far better suited to solve this problem than a mixed-syntax command line script would be. I'm just curious...

Upvotes: 11

Views: 5530

Answers (1)

Biffen
Biffen

Reputation: 6357

You could use this:

rem(){ :;};rem '
@goto b
';echo sh;exit
:b
@echo batch

It's valid shell script and batch, and will execute different blocks depending on how it's run.

Modify the echo and @echo lines to do what you want.

Upvotes: 24

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