X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=y7LSi5TMSicgtzQDSbqc95MdZm115w7JpSRsHOSUjCM lSFPDKrcIkriB+O6Q7QfhbEV9zrj+MAU+xoJgvJRlw7cqsru0dxI/9rTVw8PzmEM O3//FFsSNrefZj+Oyw3GndKE31ngYw4dBQxvtjHpSL3c6XL2vFaWm1f5/VfdCvVw = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=rbargMQ4svxYk6zz+/y7TIDE3Pw=; b=tJr7hrSUjPJDkA0jV nyAwLortZdXbi82B/KyEzlu3ABQUr2wD4ClPHb45lb6KOG106U8Ko9VdtyxPBtzR 25nImjzwlWlA1Fmm2BkFpz/FiAJwK5ylEEowqbMzY4tYbccOq65hxd/lnUqk50ps m0mIhj0mEtUJcWL5oyY9SdHEaM= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173025pub.verizon.net Message-id: <52AF9B87.2030906@verizon.net> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:32:07 -0500 From: Gerry Reno User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cannot execute binary file References: <52AF84E3 DOT 7070109 AT verizon DOT net> <52AF9A80 DOT 5010605 AT gmail DOT com> In-reply-to: <52AF9A80.5010605@gmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 12/16/2013 07:27 PM, Max Polk wrote: > On 12/16/2013 5:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> /usr/bin/ls: /usr/bin/ls: cannot execute binary file >> /bin/bash: Exit 126 >> >> >> This is the error that greets me when I try to execute a command in cygwin from a Windows Command Prompt like so: >> >> C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -h always /bin/bash -l ls >> >> This was after installing a new version of Cygwin today. So I wiped it and installed it again and got the same error >> again. >> >> This used to work because I've called my own scripts this way before. Is there some new way of doing this? >> > > If you provide a "minus c" option, it will work: > > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -h always -e /bin/bash -l -c ls > I just tried it with -c and all it gives you is a totally blank window. Tried a bunch of other commands using the -c and same thing. Just a blank window. Thanks for the suggestion though. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple