On 2018-12-04, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

In article <g6obkaFra0eU1@mid.individual.net>,
J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:

On 12/4/18 5:50 PM, Mike Easter wrote:

ttp wrote:

Convert windows based batch file to linux based shell script.
https://www.example.com/online-batch-file-shell-script-converter/

That is an interesting idea.  It seems to me that it would have to be a >>> very sophisticated program.  I wonder what happens - what the result or >>> 'error' is - when it is challenged with something that doesn't solve
according to its algo.

There are a zillion .bat files out there that one could choose to mess
around with it.

Most of the bat-files will not be useful to run on a Linux/Unix system.

Yes, I'm too lazy to goto/access the site. Sue me.

But I'd like to see some discussion and examples here of some inputs and outputs from this process.

Natually, I'm as sceptical as anyone about both the efficacy and the
utility of this conversion process.

It doesn't work. it fails on simple constructs like "if errorlevel"


In dos 3 batch was dragged kicking and screaming into turing
completeness, it took like 50 lines of code to add two numbers.


later versions had arithmetic built in.

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When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.

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