How to run bash shell script in cygwin?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 19 14:42:00 GMT 2007


myuser01 wrote:
> I have a script called "batchjob" that looks like this:
>     #!/bin/bash
>     echo 'I was here'
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 c10066 mkpasswd   48 Jul 19 09:30 batchjob
> 
> But when I try to execute it from the cygwin shell I get this: 
> $ batchjob
> bash: batchjob: command not found
> 
> How do i execute a bash shell script from within cygwin?

This is not a Cygwin problem.  It's a usage issue.  You'd see
the same problem on other platforms.  Try:

./batchjob

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