Re: shell script giving error message "No such file or directory" on cygwin 3.0.7-1

[Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>]

On 9/26/2019 10:43 PM, DynV Montrealer wrote:
> I've tried updating Cygwin a few days ago, hopefully I did it right and it
> seems its version cygwin 3.0.7-1, with its kernel version 3.0.7(0.338/5/3).
> If you did not realize it, I'm unfamiliar with Cygwin, as well as with
> GNU/Linux.
> I managed to do a command that give the result I wanted (I've tested it
> successfully) ; its censored version is "sed -e 'WORKING_REGEX' -i
> /cygdrive/REGEX_FILE_FULL_PATH". I then copy-pasted it (from Cygwin64
> Terminal) into a file I saved with the extension .sh hoping to have that
> work as a shell script. I then input in the terminal the uncensored
> "./cygdrive/SHELL_SCRIPT_FULL_PATH" and got the uncensored version of
> "-bash: ./cygdrive/SHELL_SCRIPT_FULL_PATH: No such file or directory". Oh!
> And it likely is the right path as when I do the command "ls
> /cygdrive/SHELL_SCRIPT_FULL_PATH" it gives the output
> "/cygdrive/SHELL_SCRIPT_FULL_PATH".
> 
> Is there a way to make a Cygwin shell script with the command? Or do I have
> to make a text file giving instructions (copy-paste, etc.) ?

I am confused by your ./cygdrive/SHELL_SCRIPT_FULL_PATH.  I would think
you should omit the leading dot.  cygdrive hangs off the root of the cygwin
file system.  Or maybe you meant . <space> filename?  That would source
a file.

Regards - Eliot Moss

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