Batch to Bash

Grizzly Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk
Fri May 19 06:44:12 UTC 2023


Hi All

I get asked to recover / salvage files from old or dead PC's and have over time 
built a generic batch to do a good job (only needing the odd tweak for specific 
cases)

Air code
supply target drive address (drive letter)
clear screen
loop through all drives / partitions
if drive/partition not the target copy each file type to target in original 
structure (in directory named for source partition)

it uses Xcopy (I may move to XXCopy when I have time) which I think can be 
replaced (with findname/cp, zip/unzip or rsync) on Ubuntu, I'm okay with 
simple(ish) bash scripts** but I don't think I can at the moment do my Dos 
batch justice in bash form, does anyone fancy taking a run at it I can post 
(OL) it may even be of use to someone who needs to do the job on a unfamiliar 
windows box


** my update Wine works well (or did before WineHQ made a few changes I have 
yet to include) 





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