Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:22:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Nancy McGough Subject: Re: running Cygwin shell scripts from a bat file (Was: precompiled perl?) In-reply-to: To: Cygwin Mailing List Message-id: Organization: Infinite Ink - mirrored at www.ii.com and www.best.com/~ii/ MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-X-Sender: ii AT shell13 DOT ba DOT best DOT com On 20 Apr 1999, Nancy McGough wrote: > What about plain old shell scripts that use a bunch of regular Unix > commands (cp, mv, grep, cut, sed, etc.) -- can these be run from a DOS > box or from a bat file? Again the reason I want to be able to do this > is so I can use Windows Explorer and the Send To pop-up menu to send a > file a Unix script. Someone mailed me privately about the sh command and that seems to be the secret to everything I want to do. Sorry if I have sounded like an idiot but I did search through the documentation on the web site and try a bunch of experiments before I posted. I think that the main problem is that Cygwin and its docs are designed for programmers and all I want to do is run my Unix scripts on files that are on my Win98 machine. And I'd love to be able to do that from within Windows Explorer rather than having to open up the Cygwin bash window and doing everything the Unix command-line way. Again, I would really like a pointer to some docs that explain how to use all the great things about Cygwin and the great things about Win98 (there are a few like the GUI SendTo command IMHO). -- ŠNancy McGough http://www.ii.com Infinite Ink --= Sent via PINE: Power Internet News & Email for Win/Unix =-- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com