call shell from VBA

[cmccabe]

Can a button be placed on an excel spreadsheet that when clicked runs a shell. I have Cygwin installed on a windows 7 machine with excel 2010 that I would like a user to press a button to run a shell script. Currently, I run it with

 bash ~/newbatch.sh

, but I am trying to avoid any scripting. Thank you .

[pjwhitfield]

Call Shell("bash ~/newbatch.sh", vbNormalFocus)

[cmccabe]

 Call Shell("bash ~/newbatch.sh", vbNormalFocus)

File not found.

I used to run
VB

 Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim cmd As String
Dim ret As Double
Dim WshShell As Object
Dim plink_object As Object

' Run Linux Commands
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
On Error Resume Next
Set plink_object = WshShell.Run("C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe C:\cygwin\home\cmccabe\ newbatch.sh 66 ""50602_15:56:31_15:56:11_15:56:21;50602_15:57:07_15:56:47_15:56:57""", 1)
On Error GoTo 0

that seemed to work but now cygwin opens and then closes right away. Im not sure if there is a better way or what I am doing wrong? Thank you .