help with script (unix/windows paths)

pickarooney

I'm trying to automate a process and can't decide between a DOS-only approach, unix-only or a mixture of the two. Has anyone any tops for the following?

I want to take two windows-style paths, extract a couple of arguments from them and create directories using these arguments. e.g. the files are currently on:

g:\projectnumber\filetypes\subtype\batchnumber1 and
g:\resources\othertype\batchnumber2

I want to create paths called

d:\projectnumber\batchnumber1 and
d:\projectnumber\resources\batchnumber2 and copy the files into them

I can do this with cut, mkdir and cp, but it's a bit of a pain having to wrap the windows-paths in quotes all the time.

Next I want to launch a Windows executable (probably via a batchfile) and pass some of these parameters to it.

This is probably very vague, but I'm wondering is there any way to do all this in one script, or by getting a unix script to create a batch file then run it?

hostyle

pickarooney wrote:

I'm trying to automate a process and can't decide between a DOS-only approach, unix-only or a mixture of the two. Has anyone any tops for the following?

I want to take two windows-style paths, extract a couple of arguments from them and create directories using these arguments. e.g. the files are currently on:

g:\projectnumber\filetypes\subtype\batchnumber1 and
g:\resources\othertype\batchnumber2

I want to create paths called

d:\projectnumber\batchnumber1 and
d:\projectnumber\resources\batchnumber2 and copy the files into them

I can do this with cut, mkdir and cp, but it's a bit of a pain having to wrap the windows-paths in quotes all the time.

Next I want to launch a Windows executable (probably via a batchfile) and pass some of these parameters to it.

This is probably very vague, but I'm wondering is there any way to do all this in one script, or by getting a unix script to create a batch file then run it?

Sounds like the perfect job for perl?

pickarooney

Yeah? Might be worth my while finally getting round to learning it...