On 9/24/2013 15:43, Ulrich Pogson wrote:
I would like to run this script `for file in `find . -name "*.po"` ;
do msgfmt -o ${file/.po/.mo} $file ; done` in windows cmd.
What exactly do you mean by "in windows cmd"?
If you're trying to translate this script into cmd.exe's "batch"
language, it's not going to be an easy translation because batch is
about as impoverished as programming languages get, and you're using
some pretty advanced Bash features here. Pattern substitution in
variable interpolation and command output substitution don't even exist
in cmd.exe's batch language. You'd have to fake it with temporary files
or some other hack like that.
If you're just trying to get this bit of Bash code to run from cmd.exe
but you can still have Bash installed, the solution is fairly simple:
d:\path\to\dir> bash -c "for file in..."
The trickiest part is handling all the quoting, so it gets to bash.exe
correctly. It might be simpler to put this into a script file so you
can say "bash -c /path/to/my/script.sh" instead of depending on cmd.exe
to get quoting right.
You also have to handle the PATH issues.
The simplest option is to make sure the Cygwin bin directory is at the
start of the PATH while in cmd.exe.
If you can't do that, then you end up with something fairly ugly:
c:\> c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "for file in `/bin/find..."
Note that you have to give explicit path names in both DOS and POSIX
forms here for the different parts. You have a special trap here
because Windows provides a find.exe, and it isn't at all the same thing
as Cygwin's find.exe.
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