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
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
