Re: Trick cmd.exe of Windows XP to run cygwin Batch Script.

[Robert Pendell <shinji@elite-systems.org>]

Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:07:31 +0100, Spiro Trikaliotis
> <an-cygwin@spiro.trikaliotis.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> * On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 06:20:20PM +0800 Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>>
>>> I've some cygwin/bash scripts and I want to invoke them without log
>>> into the Cygwin's bash terminal.  Is this possible?
>> d:\> bash -c ./myscript
> 
> I've use the command: 
> 
> bash -c "help set"
> 
> to find that bash accept the following option:
> 
>        -C  If set, disallow existing regular files to be overwritten
>            by redirection of output.
> 
> But, I cann't find the *-c* parameter used here, could you please give
> me some hints?
> 
>> Note that you might have to add the path to bash (c:\cygwin\bin\bash or
>> similar) in case it is not in your path. Also, you might want/need to
>> add --login or -l to the options of bash.
> 
> Again, the bash's built-in help doesn't give me the abbr. *-l* for
> *--login*, any hints on this?
> 
> Regards,
> 

For all of the above you probably wouldn't find anything in bash 
built-in help docs.  You would find it in the man page for bash.  Type 
'man bash' in a cygwin window and you will find both -l and -c defined 
there.  Just for reference...

-l - Make bash act as if it had been invoked as a login shell.
--login - Same as -l.

-c string - If the -c option is present then commands are read from 
string.  if there are arguments after the string, they are assigned to 
the positional parameters, starting with $0.

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#RTFM

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