Vista - Conversion tool

Are there any tools available that convert .cmd scripts to powershell
scripts? I have found many vbscript tools but have had little sucess finding
a tool to convert my .cmd scripts. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated as my scripts are quite large and a tool would be super.

Thanks All,

-DrewP

AFAIK there are none... it would be seriously complicated to write. You have
to make a ton of assumptions and it would be effectively useless IMO (meaning
it would fail badly.)

Conversion tools barely work on languages with constraints... with Batch
files you dont have any of those. For example you cannot do much with batch
files without external .exe files... how do you convert those?

Perhaps taking a functionized approach to the scripts you have would be best.

Brandon Shell
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D> Are there any tools available that convert .cmd scripts to powershell
D> scripts? I have found many vbscript tools but have had little sucess
D> finding a tool to convert my .cmd scripts. Any suggestions would be
D> greatly appreciated as my scripts are quite large and a tool would be
D> super.
D>
D> Thanks All,
D>
D> -DrewP
D>

I don't know of such a tool either and I hardly believe that it can be
written with reasonable effort. The main blocking point from my point of view
is "goto", which is the primary flow control statement of cmd and there is
absolutely no functional equivalent in ps.

Gerd

"DrewP" wrote:

Thanks for the info guys....Looks like I am going to be learning a ton of
powershell to convert my build scripts.

-DrewP

"DrewP" wrote:

"DrewP" <DrewP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5447C49F-D68F-41CD-ABF6-3380D801D476@xxxxxxBeen there and done that (except that I converted from Korn shell). The
resulting scripts are a lot easier to follow and more capable if you ask me.
:-)

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Keith