I haven't been on a unix system in a long time and I'm trying to teach a friend unix. After looking at/testing various options cygwin seemed to be the easiest to download and install.

Everything works pretty much as I recall and I even tested a small java program on it.

I can't seem to get scripts to work. We used to set up scripts to run files and redirect output and or input.

for instance c_grape would contain java prog > prog.out
or c_ls would contain ls -l > dump

so we would chmod 777 the file and just type c_ls or c_grape and it would run.

when I try this I get an error saying command not found. I tried renaming the file with a .exe on the end of it and it ran but didn't execute the commands in the shell, as far as I can tell.

Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.