Question

HI!
I would like to use this simple script.sh:

#!/bin/sh
filename=$1
echo $filename | sed 's/\([A-Z]\)/ \1/g';

In a script.bat, but my computer is not Windows, so I can’t test it. This one would be correct??

prueba.bat 

filename=%1  
echo %filename% | sed 's/\([A-Z]\)/ \1/g';

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Not quite:

@echo %1| sed "s/\([A-Z]\)/ \1/g"

But you do have to make sure you have a sed available (CygWin or GnuWin32 are excellent for these tools – I prefer GnuWin32 if you only need specific things, CygWin tends to give you a lot).

You also have to be careful with environment variables like filename. While UNIX will create them in the context of the current shell (so its effect will be limited), cmd.exe scripts will “leak” them (hence the direct use of %1).