Greetings,
I would be very grateful to anyone who is willing to help and knows there scripting and how to convert a DOS CMD script.
In this posting I am also hoping to pass on information to anyone wanting to see a bit of VMware command line stuff.
I have made a script (batch file) that runs great in windows but I want to run it on Ubuntu (9.04 64-bit).
The problem is that dividual commands run independently on the command line, but in a script it doesn't. It seems like only the first command runs and the rest don't really work.
I want to know how best to create the script file and run it. I also want to learn on the way.
I don't have the time to learn more shell scripting right now and want to get the job done. I tried to get it to work but it all just behaves strangely.

I created this script to quickly deploy 3 VMware virtual machines (2 are clones from a base image and one gets unzipped). The script does fancy stuff like change the vmnets and adjust the memory and display names of the new VMs. The idea is to use them and then later redeploy them afresh.
I will use something like "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines" instead of "c:\Virtual Machines" and /usr/bin/vmware instead of vmware.exe

Here is the working DOS script and below some conversion that I have created
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Code:

@echo off
cd\
cd "Virtual Machines\VMs\"
rmdir England /S /Q
mkdir England
c:
cd\
cd "Virtual Machines\VMs\"
cls
echo.
echo Creating VMs ....
echo.
echo Start time:
echo.
time /T
time /T > timenow.txt
rem ##### PC 1
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe" clone "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\XPVM\Windows XP Pro.vmx" "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc1\pc1.vmx" linked
rem the next line looks in the vmx file for clone.... value and replaces with pc1
cscript replace.vbs "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc1\pc1.vmx" "Clone of Windows XP Pro" "pc1" 
echo.
echo PC done.
echo.
time /T
echo.
rem ##### pc2
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe" clone "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\XPVM\Windows XP Pro.vmx" "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc2\pc2.vmx" linked
cscript replace.vbs "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc2\pc2.vmx" "Clone of Windows XP Pro" "pc2" 
cscript replace.vbs "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc2\pc2.vmx" "VMnet2" "VMnet3" 
cscript replace.vbs "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc2\pc2.vmx" "512" "256" 
echo.
echo pc2 done.
echo.
time /T
echo.
7z e "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\pc3.7z" -o"C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc3\" 
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe" -c -s 10240MB -a lsilogic -t 2 "C:\Virtual Machines\VMs\England\pc3\pc3-000001.vmdk" 
echo.
echo pc3 done.
echo.
time /T
echo.
sleep 5
cls
echo.
echo.
rem sleep 10
cls
echo.
echo  The time now is:
time /T
echo     Launching VMware Workstation Console now ....
echo.
echo.
echo Start time was:
type timenow.txt
echo.
time /T
echo.
echo.
echo.
rem cls
echo.
echo All done !
echo.
echo Job complete
echo.
echo.
sleep 30

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END

Conversions
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This is the base image being used to make a linked clone, to later be called pc1
/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws clone "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/CheckPoint/XPVM/Windows XP Pro.vmx" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/CheckPoint/England/pc1/pc1.vmx" linked


This replaced the vb script (cscript replace (above)) for replacing text values in the file:
rpl "Clone of Windows XP Pro" "pclondon" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/England/pc1/pc1.vmx"