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

If you don't mind always including .sh on the script file name, then you can keep the same script for Cygwin and Unix (Macbook).

To illustrate:
1. Always include .sh to your script file name, e.g., test1.sh
2. test1.sh looks like the following as an example:
#!/bin/bash echo '$0 = ' $0 echo '$1 = ' $1 filepath=$1 3. On Windows with Cygwin, you type "test1.sh" to run
4. On a Unix, you also type "test1.sh" to run

Note: On Windows, you need to use the file explorer to do following once:
1. Open the file explorer
2. Right-click on a file with .sh extension, like test1.sh
3. Open with... -> Select sh.exe
After this, your Windows 10 remembers to execute all .sh files with sh.exe.

Note: Using this method, you do not need to prepend your script file name with bash to run