Re: Show window for BASH script run with /bin/run
JPMcGrath jpmcgr...@jpmcgrath.net writes: I am running a bash script under cygwin from within another (non-cygwin) program. The script normally does not interact with the user, so I use /usr/bin/run when running the script to avoid having a bash window constantly popping up and going away. However, if the script encounters an error, I need to show the user what went wrong. What I am looking for is a way for the script to show the hidden window if it encounters an error. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance. Write the error output of the hidden script to a file that was removed before the script ran. If the file exists after the script exits, pop it up and show the contents to the user. If the file doesn't exist after the script exits, everything is fine. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
RE: Show window for BASH script run with /bin/run
J. David Boyd sent the following at Friday, April 02, 2010 2:32 PM JPMcGrath jpmcgr...@jpmcgrath.net writes: I am running a bash script under cygwin from within another (non-cygwin) program. The script normally does not interact with the user, so I use /usr/bin/run when running the script to avoid having a bash window constantly popping up and going away. However, if the script encounters an error, I need to show the user what went wrong. What I am looking for is a way for the script to show the hidden window if it encounters an error. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance. Write the error output of the hidden script to a file that was removed before the script ran. If the file exists after the script exits, pop it up and show the contents to the user. If the file doesn't exist after the script exits, everything is fine. You might also look at the options available with cygstart. Please note that I've never had to do this, so I may be misunderstanding the man page. Good luck, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Show window for BASH script run with /bin/run
J. David Boyd-2 writes: Write the error output of the hidden script to a file that was removed before the script ran. If the file exists after the script exits, ... I think you are assuming that I have access to the non-cygwin program that launches the script, but that was written by someone else and I do not have the source. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Show-window-for-BASH-script-run-with--bin-run-tp28121386p28124893.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
RE: Show window for BASH script run with /bin/run
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes: You might also look at the options available with cygstart. Please note that I've never had to do this, so I may be misunderstanding the man page. Thanks for that tip, but unfortunately, I cannot get cygstart to do the job. When I launch the script with cygstart --hide, it does run the window hidden, but there does not seem to be any way to show the window again. If I run cygstart --show afterwards, it just launches another instance. I am currently redirecting the output to a file, then launching notepad on the file if there is an error, which works reasonably well. But if I could show the window, I could do that after a set amount of time, which would deal with the script hanging as well. That's not too likely, so I will live with this for now. Thanks for your help. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Show-window-for-BASH-script-run-with--bin-run-tp28121386p28124894.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
