On 2009-03-23 15:18Z, wakeboarder3780 wrote: > I have script lets say: > C:\foo.bsh > > I want to be able to run this command via the windows run command by hitting > either: > Start -> Run > or > Windows Key + R > > and type something small like 'foo' and hitting return. > > In addition, I do not want a cmd prompt to be visible. This script does some > pre-processing for an IDE. I do not want the cmd prompt to be open for the > lifetime of the IDE process. > > I have tried: 1) Creating a bat file with the following contents: > c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login "C:\foo.bsh" (this fails because it keeps a cmd > open)
Try '-c' instead of '--login': Run --> Start C:\cygwin\bin\bash -c /cygdrive/c/foo.bsh You could write that in a '.bat' file if you want something shorter to type. > Is there a more integrated cygwin way to do this? This is exactly what this > fellow was trying to ask but did not receive an answer: > http://www.nabble.com/Help-on-Windows-executable-cygwin-file-script-to18262043.html#a18263644 Looks like the answer is on the last line of this reply: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-07/msg00040.html -- 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/