Cygwin64's Bash shell with Intel Fortran Environment March 2, 2017 Environment: MS Windows Pro 7 SP1 64-bit O/S (Updates to March 2, 2017) with MS compliant Cygwin64 GNU Bash shell + Unix utilities This MS Windows short-cut Target construct is a combination of the following items: (1) MS cmd.exe shell short-cut Target; %windir%\system32\cmd.exe (2) Intel Fortran *.bat file; "C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools\parallel_studio_xe_2017.2.046\bin\psxevars.bat" intel64 (3) Cygwin64 BASH shell short-cut Target; C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - "I once had an employee who was into dominance. In the morning, he was always late to work. Rather than hanging his coat on an unused hook, he would hang his coat on top of another person's coat." MS cmd.exe shell with two tasks; cmd.exe [/C|/K] "task1 & task2" task1 is "C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools\parallel_studio_xe_2017.2.046\bin\psxevars.bat" intel64 task2 is C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - Composite MS cmd.exe shell short-cut Target to obtain desired Cygwin Bash shell with Intel Fortran environment ($ ifort fma3d.f); %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /C ""C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools\parallel_studio_xe_2017.2.046\bin\psxevars.bat" intel64 & C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -" Note: /C causes the MS cmd.exe to execute and go away. /K causes the MS cmd.exe to execute and stick around. In both cases, a Cygwin GNU Bash shell command-line window is produced with the Intel ifort environment. MS cmd.exe reference: https://ss64.com/nt/cmd.html