Running a shell script through Cygwin on Windows

Question

I have a bunch of shell scripts that used to run on a Linux machine. Now, we\'ve switched over to Windows, and I need to run these scripts there. I have Cygwin installed, bu

Answer 1

One more thing - if You edited the shell script in some Windows text editor, which produces the \r\n line-endings, cygwin's bash wouldn't accept those \r. Just run dos2unix testit.sh before executing the script:

C:\cygwin\bin\dos2unix testit.sh
C:\cygwin\bin\bash testit.sh