On Apr 10 15:51, KARR, DAVID wrote: > On my old 32-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.26, I have an executable script > that is intended to be symlinked to and executed as the symlink name. This > works fine. > > On my new 64-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.29, I created the symlink using > "ln -s" as before. When I try to execute the script through the symlink, it > fails to find it in the path. The script itself has the rx bits set. I can > execute the script directly, although it doesn't do anything useful. > > I didn't see anything obvious in the FAQ or obvious searches.
Works fine for me: $ uname -rsm CYGWIN_NT-6.3 1.7.29(0.272/5/3) x86_64 $ mkdir a b $ cd a cat > x.sh <<EOF #!/bin/bash echo Hello World EOF $ chmod +x x.sh $ cd ../b $ ln -s ../a/x.sh hello $ ./hello Hello World Did you miss the #! by any chance? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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