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alpha_989
alpha_989

Reputation: 5350

how to run .bat or .cmd files from Bash for Windows 10

gcloud.cmd is a Windows command-line script. I am trying to run it from the Bash shell installed on Windows 10. It is recognized by the CMD prompt, but not by “Bash for Windows 10”.

Based on this thread I created a .bashrc file with this entry:

PATH=$PATH:/mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin

It seems that Bash now finds the file because when I run gcloud.cmd it shows:

/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 1: @echo: command not found
/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 2: rem: command not found
/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 7: `rem <cloud-sdk-cmd-preamble>'

I also tried the following commands because Cygwin seems to recognize .bat files automatically:

cmd.exe gcloud.cmd
cmd gcloud.cmd 
cmd gcloud
cmd /c gcloud
cmd /c glcoud.cmd

All of the above commands show:

No command 'cmd' found, did you mean: (…)

How do I run Windows Batch commands from Bash?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 17724

Answers (2)

Christian Wendt
Christian Wendt

Reputation: 71

You need to specify the full path to cmd.exe.

I have added the following to my ~/.bash_aliases:

alias cmd='/mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /c'

with this you can run *.bat files with:

$ cmd ./test.bat

Upvotes: 7

Luke Deven
Luke Deven

Reputation: 64

Sorry to post this as an answer but I cannot yet comment. I was thinking that maybe you could have a batch file that calls bash scripts, then once they exit, it starts to bat files, then starts more bash scripts? You could split your code in too... Just an idea.

Upvotes: 2

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