Why won't my .sh file work with cygwin?
Thorsten Kampe
thorsten@thorstenkampe.de
Wed Jul 4 10:04:00 GMT 2012
* Gundament (Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:38:36 -0700 (PDT))
>
> I am new to Cygwin but I understand it does it's best to simulate a
> linux terminal.
No. "Cygwin is: a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and
feel environment for Windows." http://cygwin.com/
> I want to make a little program and I have written out the entire code and
> saved it as a ".sh" file.
>
> I have paired my Windows computer to open .sh files with Cygwin's mintty.exe
> (terminal)
You are confusing a terminal (like Mintty) with a shell (like bash).
Thorsten
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