Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40ECB238.9180C98D@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 19:32:24 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running a shell Script Directly from windows References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Scott Emerson Longley wrote: > I am wondering if Cygwin provides a way to run shell scripts or other > programs that run within Cygwin, directly from windows (or a .bat). In > other words, I would like to double-click something on my desktop and have > it run the shell script. I have fooled a little with bash command-line > options and whatnot, but to no avail. Any insight or URL's that lead to an > answer would be greatly appreciated. Create a shortcut that runs "sh.exe /path/to/script.sh". When you click on it your script will run in a command window. If your cygwin bin directory is not in your path then the shortcut will have to include it, i.e. "c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe /home/foo/bar.sh". The executable's location is a Windows path, the args to it are POSIX paths. If the script has something other than /bin/sh in the shebang, then substitute appropriately. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/