Cygwin Does Not run .py and .sh File Created in Visual Studio Code

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I am running Cygwin terminal in Visual Studio Code (2019), and I tried to run hello.sh and hello.py file, but nothing gets printed out in the terminal. No error message either. I also tried to open a Cygwin terminal outside of Visual Studio, nothing gets printed out either.

However, I created the same files from Pycharm in a venv directory, and copied the files into my Cygwin directory -- it worked.

code in hello.py file:

print("hello world")

code in hello.sh file:

echo hello world

I run these files with the same commands in all of the aforementioned terminals:

./hello.sh
python hello.py

Output when I use hello.py and hello.sh files generated and copied from Pycharm:

hello world

Otherwise nothing goes on when run these two files from Cygwin.

I wonder how this happened and how to generate .py files and .sh that will work directly in VS Studio.

I have seen other threads mentioning a "command not found" error when running .sh files. It is not my case, since no error gets printed out.

Thanks!

Where VS is looking for the program to execute ? I doubt it is Cygwin aware and knows that needs to run the cygwin version of bash or python — matzeri
– matzeri, Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 18:31
Maybe the first step is to run something like diff hello.py pycharm/hello.py — Philippe
– Philippe, Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 18:34
@matzeri Hi, I have configured VS code to use Cygwin as the integrated terminal. — Bec Zhao
– Bec Zhao, Commented Dec 8, 2020 at 12:50
@Bec Zhao -How are things going? Just checking in to see if the information provided was helpful. — Jill Cheng
– Jill Cheng, Commented Dec 10, 2020 at 8:00

Jill Cheng · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-08 03:05:48Z

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According to your description, I tested this process on my computer, and it is recommended that you could refer to the following:

Please ensure that the download and installation of "Cygwin Terminal" is correct.
Before using this terminal to execute a file, please go to the parent folder where the file is located.

1). Execute the "hello.sh" file in the "Cygwin" terminal outside of VSCode:

2). Use the "Cygwin" terminal to execute the "hello.sh" file in VSCode:

3). Use the "Cygwin" terminal in VSCode to execute the "hello.py" file:

In addition, in order to use the "Cygwin" terminal in VSCode, I used the following settings in "settings.json":

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "...:/cygwin64/bin/bash.exe",

answered Dec 8, 2020 at 3:05

Jill Cheng

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