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Did you know that you can make Windows shortcuts with Cygwin and ln? I did not know this, just tried it out today and it works!
This is probably the smallest thing I’m blogging about, but read on you might get some new ideas (like I did) about file organization in Windows. I swear some days [...]

Normally you can run scripts in the Cygwin shell. But I wanted to run a bash script in Windows scheduler. Find the Cygwin.bat file probably located in C:\cygwin. It looks something like this.

@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
bash –login -i

This batch file doesn’t let you run an external script with it. Add a %1 at the bash command’s [...]