X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:20:39 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Pinaki Mukherjee cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Calling shell script from DOS In-Reply-To: <20060127062253.97104.qmail@web50102.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060127062253.97104.qmail@web50102.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Pinaki Mukherjee wrote: > I have installed Cygwin. I want to invoke a shell > script from the DOS/Windows command prompt (instead of > opening Cygwin Window first and calling it from > there). How can I do this? In addition to what others said, use "bash -c" instead of "bash" to honor the shebang ("#!") line. This would then work for tcsh, ksh, perl, python, [you name it] scripts, as well as symlinks. In fact, whenever you need to invoke a Cygwin program from the DOS prompt, and you don't know if it's a script, a symlink, or an actual .exe, you can't go wrong with "bash -c progname". Adding --login (-l) is optional, but may be useful for scripts that make assumptions about your environment. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/