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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can Unix (Solaris) execute a dos .bat script? Post 302086721 by BOFH on Saturday 26th of August 2006 08:52:11 PM
Old 08-26-2006
The real issue is what commands are being run in a batch file. A batch file is the same, functionally as a ksh, sh, or csh script file. It's just a text file with a list of commands to be sequentially run. If the commands in the batch file exist on a unix box (solaris), then the batch file should run.

Linux, for example, has several aliases the make it seem a little like dos. Dir for example. On my windows boxes, I have unix commands that are actually scripts. ls, clear, etc.

Environment variables are created differently (dos uses semicolons, unix uses colons) so you'd have to build in similarities. You might be able to create a cross platform script if you're a little creative but things wont be as clean. You won't be able to start the script with the @Echo off for example. You could start it with #!/bin/ksh since dos would ignore it as a comment. Anything fancy like loops wouldn't work just because of the difference in how they work.

Carl
 

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atd

ATD(8)							     Linux Programmer's Manual							    ATD(8)

NAME

       atd - run jobs queued for later execution

SYNOPSIS

       atd [-l load_avg] [-b batch_interval] [-d] [-s]

DESCRIPTION

       atd runs jobs queued by at(1).

OPTIONS

       -l      Specifies  a  limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the compile-time choice of 0.8.	For an SMP
	       system with n CPUs, you will probably want to set this higher than n-1.

       -b      Specifiy the minimum interval in seconds between the start of two batch jobs (60 default).

       -d      Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using syslog(3).

       -s      Process the at/batch queue only once.  This is primarily of use for compatibility with old versions of at; atd -s is equivalent	to
	       the old atrun command.  A script invoking atd -s is installed as /usr/sbin/atrun for backward compatibility.

WARNING

       atd won't work if its spool directory is mounted via NFS even if no_root_squash is set.

FILES

       /var/spool/atjobs The directory for storing jobs; this should be mode 700, owner at.

       /var/spool/atspool The directory for storing output; this should be mode 700, owner at.

       /etc/at.allow, /etc/at.deny determine who can use the at system.

SEE ALSO

       at(1), atrun(1), cron(8), crontab(1), syslog(3), at.deny(5), at.allow(5).

BUGS

       The functionality of atd should be merged into cron(8).

local								     Mar 1997								    ATD(8)
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