From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19595 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2013 00:32:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 19586 invoked by uid 89); 17 Dec 2013 00:32:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173025pub.verizon.net Received: from vms173025pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173025pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:32:13 +0000 Received: from renog13-lin01.localdomain ([unknown] [71.122.175.81]) by vms173025.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MXX006Y1DHJ48I0@vms173025.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:32:08 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <52AF9B87.2030906@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:32:00 -0000 From: Gerry Reno User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cannot execute binary file References: <52AF84E3.7070109@verizon.net> <52AF9A80.5010605@gmail.com> In-reply-to: <52AF9A80.5010605@gmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-12/txt/msg00289.txt.bz2 On 12/16/2013 07:27 PM, Max Polk wrote: > On 12/16/2013 5:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> /usr/bin/ls: /usr/bin/ls: cannot execute binary file >> /bin/bash: Exit 126 >> >> >> This is the error that greets me when I try to execute a command in cygwin from a Windows Command Prompt like so: >> >> C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -h always /bin/bash -l ls >> >> This was after installing a new version of Cygwin today. So I wiped it and installed it again and got the same error >> again. >> >> This used to work because I've called my own scripts this way before. Is there some new way of doing this? >> > > If you provide a "minus c" option, it will work: > > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -h always -e /bin/bash -l -c ls > I just tried it with -c and all it gives you is a totally blank window. Tried a bunch of other commands using the -c and same thing. Just a blank window. Thanks for the suggestion though. -- 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