What's the proper commandline to test bash scripts in notepad ++

Everything i've tried opens a cmd window briefly then dissapears. I can't get one to stay up and execute my code.

I'd like to simply be able to use the RUN menu from notepad++ to start my scripts while coding.

Thanks.

According to this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/
notepad++ is a Windows program.

Please describe in more detail what you are doing. What OS, etc.

I'm using cygwin in windows, and you can run bash within it. I'm using notepad ++ to write the scripts. You can press a hotkey to execute the script, but im not sure what the syntax is to put into the hotkey.

It has to load cygwin and execute the script, and i've tried c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat script.sh and that will open a cmd window and then immediately close, i dont think its actually running anything.

Just wondering if anyone knows how to set it up properly, or if they use a different program for writing and testing bash scripts in a windows environment for use in cygwin

That doesn't work, see cygwin.bat:
It doesn't look at its arguments. C:\cygwin\bin\bash script.sh should work (if it complains about missing dll's try adding C:\cygwin\bin to the PATH). Also note that the window will close when the script ends, so you should have a call to sleep, or read at the end to prevent the window from closing before you can see it.

Thanks for your help!

I got it working using this

or you can use

This way makes things a bit nicer to read.

Creating batch files or shorcuts work this way as well if you want to simply have a icon to click to run your script

Thanks again!