Execute Batch file in Windows Subsystem for Linux

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oscfri picture oscfri · Feb 2, 2018 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

Is it possible to execute a .bat file from a Windows Subsystem for Linux (eg. Ubuntu)?

It is trivial to run an .exe file from a WSL, but I haven't found a trivial way to run a .bat. The only way I found is to open cmd.exe, but that is a bit cumbersome to do every time I need to execute a .bat file.

Answer

Compo picture Compo · Feb 2, 2018

Unfortunately at the moment you cannot do so without either using:

cmd.exe /c foo.bat

…or the following hack using binfmt:

sudo sh -c "echo :WindowsBatch:E::bat::/init: > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"

You could then just type:

foo.bat

The problems with this method are that you'd need to be root, run it each time you opened a bash window, probably do the same for .cmd files too and, I suppose, any bash script name ending with .bat could have issues!

I guess until Microsoft deals with this issue, you're limited to the above.

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