Running a shell script through Cygwin on Windows

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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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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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The existing answers all seem to run this script in a DOS console window   This may be acceptable  but for example means that colour codes  changing text colour  don t work but instead get printed out as they are      there is no item   032mGroovy 0m    I found this solution some time ago  so I m not sure whether mintty exe is a standard Cygwin utility or whether you have to run the setup program to get it  but I run like this   D  apps cygwin64 bin mintty exe -i  Cygwin-Terminal ico  bash exe   myShellScript sh       this causes the script to run in a Cygwin BASH console instead of a Windows DOS console

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Just wanted to add that you can do this to apply dos2unix fix for all files under a directory  as it saved me heaps of time when we had to  fix  a bunch of our scripts   find   -type f -exec dos2unix exe         I d do it as a comment to Roman s answer  but I don t have access to commenting yet

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If you don t mind always including  sh on the script file name  then you can keep the same script for Cygwin and Unix  Macbook    To illustrate  1  Always include  sh to your script file name  e g   test1 sh 2  test1 sh looks like the following as an example          bin bash     echo   0      0     echo   1      1     filepath  1  3  On Windows with Cygwin  you type  test1 sh  to run 4  On a Unix  you also type  test1 sh  to run   Note  On Windows  you need to use the file explorer to do following once  1  Open the file explorer 2  Right-click on a file with  sh extension  like test1 sh 3  Open with    -  Select sh exe After this  your Windows 10 remembers to execute all  sh files with sh exe   Note  Using this method  you do not need to prepend your script file name with bash to run

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If you have access to the Notepad   editor on Windows there is a feature that allows you to easily get around this problem    Open the file that s giving the error in Notepad    Go under the  Edit  Menu and choose  EOL Conversion  There is an option there for  UNIX OSX Format   Choose that option  Re-save the file    I did this and it solved my problems   Hope this helps   Read more at http   danieladeniji wordpress com 2013 03 07 microsoft-windows-cygwin-error-r-command-not-found

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One more thing - if You edited the shell script in some Windows text editor  which produces the  r n line-endings  cygwin s bash wouldn t accept those  r  Just run dos2unix testit sh before executing the script   C  cygwin bin dos2unix testit sh C  cygwin bin bash testit sh

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