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
