OK, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. -- replying below to -- From: Peter Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 15:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Anybody who know how to write .cmd or .bat files for windows ?
> On 31 Dec 2014, at 4:08 am, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > Peter made 2 excellent scripts in external, to retrieve and populate > external. > > The idea is brilliant but the are .sh files (requiring bash) so the users > need cygwin or similar installed, that is a dependency I would NOT like to > have. > > I thought the scripts was very simply and easy to convert to .cmd files, > but my command line dos knowledge is somewhat (read: a lot) rusty. > > Could one of you with windows systems, please have a look at the scripts > and create a "pure" windows variant ? One of the difficulties here is you need both an external program to retrieve files via HTTP/FTP (the scripts use wget) and to unzip the files. I don’t think either are available on windows. <orcmid> Windows comes with a command-line ftp utility, and it will also work from a list of files to download. Zip is also built into Windows - it automatically treats zip files as subdirectories. I am not certain there is a command-line way to do an extract however, but 7-zip could be used for that. The advantage of using a Windows .bat file is that nothing but existing tools are required and there is no need for users to do much. I found a .cmd on StackExchange that does unzipping. Still looking for something simpler. I suppose we can assume that Visual Studio is installed? That increases the available tools. Also, the Windows Scripting Host is available, and it runs Jscript and VBscript. </orcmid> An alternative may be a Python script; functions for doing these are available in the standard library. Windows PowerShell may have these capabilities, but I’m not familiar with it. — Dr Peter M. Kelly [email protected] PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966)
