Posts Tagged ‘Dos Batch’

Carrying on from my previous post about using scripts created in Windows on Linux, here are some comparisons to show the syntax differences between Windows batch scripts and bash scripts.

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• For loop through files in directory
• Setting a variable to a number and then printing the variable
• Execute a command and store the output in a variable
• If statement
• While loop
• Check last command executed OK, if not print error message and exit
• Zeropad a number to 4 digits

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