Running sh scripts in Git Bash

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I m on a Windows machine using Git 2 7 2 windows 1 with MinGW 64   I have a script in C  path to scripts myScript sh   How do I execute this script from my Git Bash instance   It was possible to add it to the  bashrc file and then just execute the entire bashrc file   But I want to add the script to a separate file and execute it from there

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I had a similar problem  but I was getting an error message      cannot execute binary file   I discovered that the filename contained non-ASCII characters  When those were fixed  the script ran fine with   script sh

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Once you re in the directory  just run it as   myScript sh

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Let s say you have a script script sh   To run it  using Git Bash   you do the following    a  Add a  sh-bang   line on the first line  e g     bin bash  and then  b      Use     or any valid dir spec     script sh   Note  chmod  x does nothing to a script s executability on Git Bash   It won t hurt to run it  but it won t accomplish anything either

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I was having two  sh scripts to start and stop the digital ocean servers that I wanted to run from the Windows 10  What I did is     downloaded  Git for Windows   from https   git-scm com download win    installed Git to execute the  sh script just double-clicked the script file it started the execution of the script     Now to run the script each time I just double-click the script

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usr bin env sh   this is how git bash knows a file is executable  chmod a x does nothing in gitbash    Note  any  she-bang  will work  e g     bin bash  etc

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If your running export command in your bash script the above-given solution may not export anything even if it will run the script  As an alternative for that  you can run your script using     script sh    Now if you try to echo your var it will be shown  Check my the result on my git bash   coffeeapp  user  master    capstone     setup sh  done  coffeeapp  user  master    capstone   echo  ALGORITHMS  RS256   coffeeapp  user  master    capstone     Check more detail in this question

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If by any chance you ve changed the default open for  sh files to a text editor like I had  you can just  bash   yourscript sh   provided you have git bash installed and in path

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If you wish to execute a script file from the git bash prompt on Windows  just precede the script file with sh  sh my awesome script sh

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