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gcloud.cmd is a Windows command-line script. I am trying to run it from the Bash shell installed on Windows 10. It is recognized by the CMD prompt, but not by “Bash for Windows 10”.

Based on this thread I created a .bashrc file with this entry:

PATH=$PATH:/mnt/c/Users/username/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin

It seems that Bash now finds the file because when I run gcloud.cmd it shows:

/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 1: @echo: command not found
/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 2: rem: command not found
/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/mnt/c/Users/***/AppData/Local/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud.cmd: line 7: `rem <cloud-sdk-cmd-preamble>'

I also tried the following commands because Cygwin seems to recognize .bat files automatically:

cmd.exe gcloud.cmd
cmd gcloud.cmd 
cmd gcloud
cmd /c gcloud
cmd /c glcoud.cmd

All of the above commands show:

No command 'cmd' found, did you mean: (…)

How do I run Windows Batch commands from Bash?

Maëlan
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    I haven't used bash on windows so don't know this will work, but have you tried `cmd /c gcloud` or similar, so the `gcloud` command would be executed in a `cmd` shell instead of directly in the `bash` shell? – Eric Renouf Jun 24 '17 at 17:52
  • Yeah.. I was just thinking about this. It seems CYGWIN runs .bat files automatically in the native interpreter (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/787522/why-is-it-that-cygwin-can-run-bat-scripts). I have tried the following cmd.exe gcloud.cmd; cmd gcloud.cmd; cmd gcloud; cmd /c gcloud; cmd /c glcoud.cmd – alpha_989 Jun 24 '17 at 18:05
  • none of the above work.. perhaps I should move to cygwin, or install linux in a virtual machine.. – alpha_989 Jun 24 '17 at 18:06
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    It's hard for people to find information in the comments, and they don't format well, Instead, please [edit](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/44739204/edit) your question to include the updated attempts, and it would probably be helpful to include exact error messages when available instead of a variation on "it didn't work." – Eric Renouf Jun 24 '17 at 18:07
  • ok.. no problem! – alpha_989 Jun 24 '17 at 18:09
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    Have you tried to use a full path to cmd.exe? as in `/mnt/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe /C gcloud.cmd` You may also want to include /mnt/c/windows/system32/ to your PATH – Michaël Roy Jun 24 '17 at 18:38
  • Thanks.. i just did. Didnt work unfortunately. The only way I found it to work is by getting out of the bash shell using the following in sequence 1. cmd.exe 2. gcloud.cmd 3. exit. however, I was trying to run gcloud.cmd along with some parameters, and pass the output to grep. Grep is installed in the bash shell, and not in the windows command. So I couldnt get it working.. – alpha_989 Jun 24 '17 at 18:43
  • also the PATH maynot be issue here.. because cmd.exe is recognized regardless of which directory I am in, in the bash shell. – alpha_989 Jun 24 '17 at 18:48
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    Did you read [Bash on Ubuntu on Windows - Bash-Windows Interop](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/interop)? –  Jun 24 '17 at 21:11
  • Thanks LotPings. I think I maybe able to work with this.. – alpha_989 Jun 24 '17 at 22:32
  • The `PATH=…` line looks wrong because it contains a space: it should be double-quoted or escaped. – Maëlan Jun 24 '22 at 13:28

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You need to specify the full path to cmd.exe.

I have added the following to my ~/.bash_aliases:

alias cmd='/mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /c'

with this you can run *.bat files with:

$ cmd ./test.bat
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  • The alias method works, however you will have to adjust the path, because `cmd` will not be able to comprehend `./test.bat`. So you will either have to simply pass `test.bat` without `./` if you are in the directory where your batch file is located, or you need to pass the full path, *i.e.* use a command like this: `cmd 'C:\MyFolder\MySubfolder\test.bat'`. – Koenigsberg Sep 07 '18 at 07:08
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Sorry to post this as an answer but I cannot yet comment. I was thinking that maybe you could have a batch file that calls bash scripts, then once they exit, it starts to bat files, then starts more bash scripts? You could split your code in too... Just an idea.

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