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From: Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt@princeton.edu>
Subject:  Re: drag and drop to cygwin scripts ?
Date:  Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:57:29 -0400
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Keith Chiem wrote:
> Is it possible to write a script in cygwin, say bash or perl, create a shortcut to it in windows, and drag and drop a path or a url to it and have the script run and take it as an argument somehow ?
> 
> --k
> 
> 
> 

If you drag and drop files onto a batch script, Windows will run the 
batch script with the files as arguments. So you just need to write a 
batch script which will load bash and tell it to run your script with 
those arguments. As an example, you can edit your cygwin.bat, and change 
this line:

bash --login -i

to this:

bash -i -e /script/you/want/to/run.bash %*

And that will do what you want. Keep in mind that the file names will be 
in the Windows path format, so you will probably want to use a wrapper 
script that applies cygpath to them before passing them on to something 
else.

If you want the script to run inside an xterm or whatever, you can do 
that too.

-Lewis


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