Been there, done that! I'm having quite a bit of deja-vu relative to this
particular solution.
Earnie suggested making an executable called #!.exe If this is done, then
you can expect the batch file to grok it if its in the path.
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 03:09 PM 3/30/2001, Andrew Markebo wrote:
>Will cmd still grokk the batch-file if you have a #! on the first
>line??
>
> /Andy
>
>/ Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>| >
>| > At 11:17 AM 3/30/2001, Matt Minnis wrote:
>| >
>| > >Is there a way to get Cygwin to recognize that *.bat files are executeable as:
>| > >fred.bat & fred (without the .bat)?
>| >
>| > Anything's possible. foo.bat works for me though.
>| >
>|
>| Hmm... This isn't a FAQ yet?!
>|
>| I've explained many times how to do this.
>|
>| 1) Create a noop program named #!.exe
>| 2) Install the it in C:/cygwin/bin and C:/windows/system32/
>| 3) Add `#! c:/windows/system32/cmd /c' to the .bat file as the first
>| line.
>|
>| Earnie.
>|
>| P.S.:
>|
>| cat << EOD > noop.c
>| int main (void) {return 0;}
>| EOD
>| gcc -o \#\!.exe noop.c
>|
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