You can always just append ".bat" to the command:
Type:
Wed Jan 17-10:39:03 ~/bin 513$ myBatchFile.bat
Instead of:
Wed Jan 17-10:39:03 ~/bin 513$ myBatchFile
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Running .bat files from CYGWIN
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> >>
> >> At 01:50 PM 1/15/2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Create a noop program named #!.exe and put it in command.com/cmd.exe
> >> >PATH.
> >> >Then at the top of your .bat file put
> >> > #! c:\\path\\to\\cmd.exe /c
> >> >and this will cause Cygwin to think it's executable and execute it.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Right but these batch files won't run from cmd.exe/command.com like this
> >> though. Still, its a way to "convert" batch files to run under the Cygwin
> >> shells if you don't need them to run under cmd.exe/command.com anymore.
> >>
> >
> >Huh. Of course they will continue to work under cmd.exe/command.com, if
> >not, they wouldn't work under Cygwin shells either. It's the reason you
> >create a noop program named `#!.exe'. The cmd.exe/command.com shells
> >actually execute the program which does nothing more than return 0.
>
> Indeed, it sounds like a clever solution to the problem.
>
> cgf
>
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