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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Jared Ingersoll <jared AT cswv DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Calling bash shell from W2K batch script
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Jared Ingersoll wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if someone could provide the syntax for calling a cygwin
> shell script from the Windows 2000 cmd prompt. I'm trying to do something
> like this:
>
> d:\>start c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "./script1.sh"
>
> But it doesn't seem to be working quite right, some pipes and such don't
> work and I can't execute a command in the script like > file.`date +%Y%m%d`.
> What I'm trying to do is write a cygwin script to execute some mixed NT
> commands and unix commands to check some network stuff, move around some
> files etc. The reason I want to do it this way is to use windows task
> scheduler to automate the task on a nightly bases.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Jared

Check your PATH from within bash.  I suspect you don't have /bin in it.
Try 'start c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "PATH=/bin:$PATH ./script1.sh"' or
something.  You could also use "--login", but that would put you in your
home directory.  I think I posted a recipe at some point for getting
around that, but changing only the path might be the simplest solution.
	Igor
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