Running a shell script through Cygwin on Windows

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rainman_s picture rainman_s · Apr 1, 2013 · Viewed 168.2k times · Source

I have a bunch of shell scripts that used to run on a Linux machine. Now, we've switched over to Windows, and I need to run these scripts there. I have Cygwin installed, but is there a way to make the script run using Cygwin, but the call is made from Windows batch?

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Simon picture Simon · Apr 1, 2013

Sure. On my (pretty vanilla) Cygwin setup, bash is in c:\cygwin\bin so I can run a bash script (say testit.sh) from a Windows batch file using a command like:

C:\cygwin\bin\bash testit.sh

... which can be included in a .bat file as easily as it can be typed at the command line, and with the same effect.

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