How to Execute a Bash Script from PowerShell Core in Linux

Question

I have a bash script foo.sh and I want to execute it with some arguments --bar from PowerShell Core. This doesn't work:

./foo.sh

avarice · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-13 16:57:41Z

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Use a & operator

& "./foo.sh"

Or execute it using bash

& bash "./foo.sh"

answered Feb 13, 2020 at 16:57

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It turns out you can also just do ./foo.sh.

Using & "./foo.sh" or ./foo.sh just opens foo.sh in the text editor on my system. To actually run the script I had to use: & bash "./foo.sh"