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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Building a script in Ubuntu (Linux) from existing DOS .cmd Post 302380238 by dp123 on Monday 14th of December 2009 03:29:50 PM

12-14-2009

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Sure (see below). Thanks for your response.
I just recreated most of it (I hadn't saved it all and deletes the last version of file)
The main problem is that the first line or two of the script works and then each one after that doesn't. But each line pasted into a terminal works fine. I just donw want to have to run it all manually each time or run a seperate script for each line!
So I just don't know how to get the script to run each line properly as an independent command.

I get errors like this:
"errors:
Creating VMs ....
Error: Invalid clone type: must be "full" or "linked"
" not found.home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc1/pc1.vmx
PC 1."

Code:

 
#!/bin/bash
rmdir -p "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England"
mkdir "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England"
REM THESE FIRST 3 LINES SEEM TO WORK
echo Creating VMs ....
echo ##### PC 1
/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws clone "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/XPVM/Windows XP Pro.vmx" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc1/pc1.vmx" linked
rpl "Clone of Windows XP Pro" "pc1" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc1/pc1.vmx"
echo 
echo PC 1 done.
REM THESE LINES DONT WORK IN THE SCRIPT BUT DO IN THE COMMAND LINE
read -p "Press any key to continue"
rem ##### PC 2
/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws clone "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/XPVM/Windows XP Pro.vmx" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc2/pc2.vmx" linked
rpl "Clone of Windows XP Pro" "pc2" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc2/pc2.vmx"
rpl "VMnet2" "VMnet3" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc2/pc2.vmx"
rpl "512" "256" "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc2/pc2.vmx"
echo 
REM THIS ONE IS UNZIPPING A VM AND THEN CREATING THE BLANK HARD DRIVE (PRE_ALLOCATED 10GB SPACE).
echo PC 2 done.
rem ##### PC 3
7z e "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/pc3.7z" -o"/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc3/"
/usr/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 10240MB -a lsilogic -t 2 "/home/administrator/vmware/Virtual Machines/VMs/England/pc3/pc3-000001.vmdk"
echo

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