Running a bash shell script on Windows from within in Notepad++ using NppExec (and Cygwin)

Question

I'm trying to reconstruct how to execute a bash shell .sh file on my Windows machine from within Notepad++ using NPPExec. (I've done this successfully before, but my HDD crashed and I don't recall how I did it previously.)

When it was working before, I would run the NPPExec script that called a .sh file, and it showed me the console output of the .sh file processing in Notepad++ as if it were processing in cygwin.

This is the example .sh file that I'm trying to get to work:

message="Testing"
echo $message

This file is located in the root of C:.

Failed Attempts:

None of the following three methods work:

• Execute: C:\nppexec.sh

Response:

CreateProcess() failed with error code 193:
%1 is not a valid Win32 application.

• Execute: npp_exec C:\nppexec.sh

Response:

message="Testing"
CreateProcess() failed with error code 2:
The system cannot find the file specified.    
$message

• Adding #! /bin/bash to the .sh file as the first line just causes an additional error when npp_exec is run:

  NPP_EXEC: C:\nppexec.sh
  #! /bin/bash
  CreateProcess() failed with error code 2:
  The system cannot find the file specified.
  

Answer 1

The solution was to call bash directly:

C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c "command.sh"