how to run bash file in win-bash

Question

I am unfortunately having to use windows in work, and so I have installed win-bash to have a unix shell running. all going well but I am having an issue running the following .sh file:

bash $ ./qf.sh

.\qf.sh: option not available on this NT BASH release
.\qf.sh: fork: Bad file descriptor

qf.sh is:

#!/bin/bash

cat test.csv | while read line
do
        echo "${line//,/ }"  | xargs ./adder      
done

I find it hard to believe someone would create a bash emulator incapable of running a bash file. curious that the error message writes .\qf as opposed to ./qf

Can anyone shed some light on this?

pick a mature product. mingw, cygwin? – Karoly Horvath Feb 05 '14 at 11:22 — Karoly Horvath, Feb 05 '14 at 11:22
just tried cygwin - much better. – brucezepplin Feb 05 '14 at 15:06 — brucezepplin, Feb 05 '14 at 15:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 03 '14 at 10:42

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use MinGW or Cygwin

MinGW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/?source=navbar

Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/

answered Mar 03 '14 at 10:42

iamsrijon

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '15 at 17:32

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Using Cygwin absolutely killed this error for me. I do wonder however, how this should work with MinGW. I don't see any unix command executable directory to include in the path (like cygwin64\bin with Cygwin)

answered Jul 23 '15 at 17:32

Freddy

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how to run bash file in win-bash

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