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Subject:	RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable
Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:45:46 -0700
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Steve Holden wrote:
> I posted alternative content for the batch script that would save you
> from putting two unnecessary lines in the shell script. Or so I
> thought.
> The -l (or --login) option has bash read its usual startup files, 
> thereby avoiding the need four the course (".") commands at the 
> beginning of the shell script.

I tried the Bash --login option, and couldn't get *everything* to work (e.g. all
the backup Bash and Perl scripts, and everything they depend upon) under all
tested conditions -- invoking the shell script via Cygwin Bash, invoking the
shell script via a batch file invoked from cmd.exe, invoking the batch file via
Windows Explorer, invoking the batch file via a Windows shortcut, etc..  Please
test your ideas, test my solution, figure out the obvious and unobvious
differences, and post your results.  


David


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