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Re: how to run a .bat or .cmd file from bash prompt
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:48:29 +0200
- Subject: Re: how to run a .bat or .cmd file from bash prompt
- References: <4E739D87.4060806@gmail.com>
* J.V. (Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:03:35 -0600)
> To run a .bat or .cmd file, I can do this:
> $cmd
>
> C:>mybat.bat or C:\>mycmd.cmd
>
> In other words, I have to type two commands (one to get to the shell,
> and another to run the .bat or .cmd file).
>
> What I want is to write a shell script (bash), that will cd to a
> directory, enter the dos cmd prompt and execute a .bat file and then
> return to my bash shell.
>
> I do not know if this is possible, have tried many things, but nothing
> works.
Now that is a really detailed description of what you tried. Anyway, you
can run a batch script like any other script. It just works.
Thorsten
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