Calling shell script from DOS

[David Christensen]

Pinaki Mukherjee wrote:
> I have installed Cygwin. I want to invoke a shell
> script from the DOS/Windows command prompt (instead of
> opening Cygwin Window first and calling it from
> there). How can I do this?
> Thanks for any help.

This is a batch file that I use to launch a Bash script that backs up my
machines:

    dpchrist@p42800e:~/mydocuments/backup-p42800e$ cat backup-all.bat
    @echo off

    C:
    chdir C:\cygwin\bin

    bash /backup/bin/backup-all


HTH,

David


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