Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/10/15:33:04
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Travis Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
> I have written a rather extensive program using the cygwin build of
> ruby. Ruby is installed in cygwin inside of /usr/local/bin. I'm trying
> to find a way to create a script to invoke my program without it's users
> having to go into a cygwin bash shell and run it. Ideally, it would be
> something as simple as:
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash /usr/local/bin/ruby /home/travis/myprog.rb
>
> but obviously that doesn't work. So, can anybody clue me in as to how to
> accomplish this seemingly simple task? I sure would appreciate it!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Travis Whitton <whitton AT atlantic DOT net>
Travis,
'C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\ruby /home/travis/myprog.rb' should suffice, but
if you really want to fully reconstruct the environment of a bash shell, try
'C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c "exec /usr/local/bin/ruby /home/travis/myprog.rb"'
Igor
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