Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:09:05 -0500 From: David T-G To: "CygWin Users' List" Subject: Re: run batch w/o .bat? Message-ID: <20020603190905.GK1231@justpickone.org> References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20020603144303 DOT 0348bb90 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlsYxwg8UDQn+EKZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020603144303.0348bb90@pop.ma.ultranet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i --UlsYxwg8UDQn+EKZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Larry, et al -- =2E..and then Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) said... %=20 % At 02:27 PM 6/3/2002, Barnhart, Kevin wrote: % > % >I'm a new user to Cygwin, and although I'm sure someone has asked this % >question before, I'll ask it again (since I sure can't seem to find it in % >the FAQ or the archives). %=20 % The email archives is the place to look and look hard for something like= =20 I did, too, but I didn't find anything that looked familiar -- and yet I could swear that I had just seen this go by before. My recollection is that there's a parameter in the cygwin world where you can add .bat to the extensions list that the shell should automatically append to an unqualified name so that it knows to run .bat files just like .exe and .com files. I haven't found that setting, though. While it certainly may not exist, I can hardly believe that I dreamed it or that I so badly misremembered something else... Having done quite a search through the archives since the question was first posted, and having found nothing but your #!.exe idea, which was *definitely* news to me (and some of the followups intimated that it might be problematic), I wonder myself if there is a simple way to tell bash to handle .bat files directly rather than mucking about with a #! executable... TIA for me, too, & HAND :-D --=20 David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) davidtg AT justpickone DOT org * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) davidtgwork AT justpickone DOT org http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! --UlsYxwg8UDQn+EKZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8+77QGb7uCXufRwARAkELAKCL+ANcZkbhTRqlgIaKvS4R226bPACgt9ro oogTr6RE3CuvMudLw4T0jmY= =h9Go -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlsYxwg8UDQn+EKZ--