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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: running .bat files from bash
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:21:03 -0500
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At Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:10 PM, Donal Murtagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that if I want to run a .bat file in bash I have to cd
> to the 
> directory it's in first in order for it to run properly
> 
> For example, if I want to run c:\foo\bar.bat I have to use:
> 
> cd /cygdrive/c/foo
> bar.bat
> 
> if I try
> 
> /cygdrive/c/foo/bar.bat
> 
> it doesn't work properly. It seems that if I attempt the latter, the
> .bat file 
> is launched, but doesn't work properly. The particular .bat file I'm
> running 
> compiles a Java source tree, and when I try to launch it via
> /cygdrive/c/foo/bar.bat, the messages sent to standard output suggest
> it's 
> working fine, but none of the .class files are created.
> 
> Has anyone else come across this?
> 
> Cheers,
> - Donal

You could try launching it with

`cygpath -u $COMSPEC` /c `cygpath -d /cygdrive/c/foo/bar.bat`

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