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: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:45:34 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Donal Murtagh cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: running .bat files from bash In-Reply-To: <20041215201009.16917.qmail@web26107.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20041215201009 DOT 16917 DOT qmail AT web26107 DOT mail DOT ukl DOT yahoo DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, 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? Nope. I can't reproduce this on my installation... You could run javac with the -verbose flag (or even -J-verbose) to show where javac is writing the files... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/