X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:20:39 -0400 From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Getting started with bash In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1207553471.24669.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <47F9DA5E.3060904@hollo.dk> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5648158296a3bf29 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 You hit the nail on the head with the environment vars question. Bash tries to do the minimum amount of work possible when invoked non-interactively, on the assumption - almost universally true in *NIX - that it is being invoked by a process (usually another shell) that has its environment all set up already. So when that's not the case, you need to tell bash so by adding the "-l" or "--login" option, so it will go out and read login-oriented startup files ([bash_]profile) to set up its own environment. On 4/7/08, Joel M. Baldwin wrote: > > --On Monday, April 07, 2008 10:25 AM +0200 Michael Holm > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have read a lot of documents, but i really cant get this issue solved :( > > All i want is to be able to execute bash scripts from a windows > > desktop.. what i do now is.. > > > > > > a batch script: > > c:\cygwin\bin\bash c:\cygwin\example.sh > > > > this is my bash script. > > > > example.sh > > ls -l > > > > > > but i get the following output: > > command not found. > > > > i hope that someone can give me a hit... all i have done is: > > install cygwin, made my batch script.. and made my bash script.. do i > > need to set any environment vars or something? > > > > mvh > > Michael Holm > > Add the -l option to bash. > i.e. "man bash" for an explanation > > This makes it a login shell which must cause the PATH variable to be set. > > > -- > 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/ > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed -- 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/