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Re: Batch files


Been there, done that!  I'm having quite a bit of deja-vu relative to this
particular solution.

Earnie suggested making an executable called #!.exe  If this is done, then
you can expect the batch file to grok it if its in the path.

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At 03:09 PM 3/30/2001, Andrew Markebo wrote:
>Will cmd still grokk the batch-file if you have a #! on the first
>line??
>
>         /Andy
>
>/ Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> wrote:
>| "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>| > 
>| > At 11:17 AM 3/30/2001, Matt Minnis wrote:
>| > 
>| > >Is there a way to get Cygwin to recognize that *.bat files are executeable as:
>| > >fred.bat & fred (without the .bat)?
>| > 
>| > Anything's possible.  foo.bat works for me though.
>| > 
>| 
>| Hmm...  This isn't a FAQ yet?!
>| 
>| I've explained many times how to do this. 
>| 
>| 1) Create a noop program named #!.exe
>| 2) Install the it in C:/cygwin/bin and C:/windows/system32/
>| 3) Add `#! c:/windows/system32/cmd /c' to the .bat file as the first
>| line.
>| 
>| Earnie.
>| 
>| P.S.:
>| 
>| cat << EOD > noop.c
>| int main (void) {return 0;}
>| EOD
>| gcc -o \#\!.exe noop.c
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