Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-17 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/16/2014 11:51 PM, John Wiersba wrote: So maybe you want: run /bin/bash -c /path/to/hashbang/script This worked for me with a trival mintty-starting hash-bang bash script. I found your reply on the mailing list archives and quoted it above. Yes, the same approach worked for me (in my o

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread John Wiersba
> - Original Message - > From: Eliot Moss > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe > > I think it may be designed to deal only with actual executables (.exe files). > The wording of the man page is ambiguous, but suggestive of this i

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread John Wiersba
From: Eliot Moss > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: jrw32...@yahoo.com > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:34 PM > Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe > > On 10/16/2014 3:43 PM, John Wiersba wrote: > >> I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut which will start min

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/16/2014 3:43 PM, John Wiersba wrote: I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut which will start mintty indirectly by running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is to wrap the invocation in the prope

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/16/2014 10:44 AM, John Wiersba wrote: I'm trying to create a windows shortcut which will start mintty indirectlyby running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is to wrap the invocation in the prope