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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:47:52 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC: Matt Minnis <mminnis AT prefres DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Batch files
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> At 11:17 AM 3/30/2001, Matt Minnis wrote:
> 
> >Is there a way to get Cygwin to recognize that *.bat files are executeable as:
> >fred.bat & fred (without the .bat)?
> 
> Anything's possible.  foo.bat works for me though.
> 

Hmm...  This isn't a FAQ yet?!

I've explained many times how to do this. 

1) Create a noop program named #!.exe
2) Install the it in C:/cygwin/bin and C:/windows/system32/
3) Add `#! c:/windows/system32/cmd /c' to the .bat file as the first
line.

Earnie.

P.S.:

cat << EOD > noop.c
int main (void) {return 0;}
EOD
gcc -o \#\!.exe noop.c

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