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Cygwin can't execute shell script

I am trying to execute a .sh file with Cygwin on Windows 7, and I'm getting an error cannot execute binary file.

Here is what I wrote in the Cygwin command prompt window:

$ bash cygpath --unix C:\Users\\MyName\\Documents\\MyProject\\dygraphsMaster\\generate-combined.sh

This was the result:

/usr/bin/cygpath: /usr/bin/cygpath: cannot execute binary file
Solution

  • Enclose your Windows path with double quotes (") and your entire cygpath command with backticks (`).

    My example:

    > pwd
/cygdrive/c/TestFolder/ScriptInsideHere

> ls -al
total 1
drwx------+ 1 Administrators Domain Users  0 Aug 25 13:08 .
drwx------+ 1 Administrators Domain Users  0 Aug 25 13:13 ..
-rwx------+ 1 Administrators Domain Users 29 Aug 25 13:08 hello_world.sh

> cat hello_world.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo Hello World

    Running the above:

    > bash `cygpath --unix "C:\TestFolder\ScriptInsideHere\hello_world.sh"`
Hello World