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Re: Running .bat files from CYGWIN
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: Running .bat files from CYGWIN
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:50:46 -0500
- CC: Michael Yorg <myorg at extensity dot com>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <4.3.1.2.20010115124313.023299b8@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> At 12:43 PM 1/15/2001, Michael Yorg wrote:
> >I have read that CYGWIN supports running DOS .bat files but the shell seems
> >the think that they aren't executable. The exact error is, 'command not
> >found'. I've used chmod to give the file executable status and it still
> >won't work. Someone recommended running the .bat file from within a shell
> >script and that didn't seem to work either. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Check the mail list archive for discussions on this. You should be able to
> execute batch files by invoking the command interpreter (i.e. "cmd /c b.bat"
> on NT/W2K). sh (ash) or bash won't know what to do with these files
> otherwise, even if it did read them...
>
Create a noop program named #!.exe and put it in command.com/cmd.exe
PATH.
Then at the top of your .bat file put
#! c:\\path\\to\\cmd.exe /c
and this will cause Cygwin to think it's executable and execute it.
Cheers,
Earnie.
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