On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 12:53 AM Roland Mainz via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:38 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS) via Cygwin > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 6:18 AM Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> > > > wrote: > > > > Is there an official way to enter the Cygwin command line (e.g. bash > > > > login) from Windows cmd.exe, e.g. if someone ssh's into a Windows > > > > machine he/she ends/up in a cmd.exe and not bash... > > > > > > ping! > > > > You may run your favourite shell from the bin directory of your Cygwin > > installation: > > > > "C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe" > > "C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe" > > > > replace " C:\Program Files" with your target Cygwin installation directory > > root. > > Thanks ;-) > > Turns out my problem was simply that I forgot that just typing "bash" > only gives me an interactive shell, which sources only the interactive > shell configs (e.g. /etc/ksh.kshrc + ~/.kshrc for ksh93, and > /etc/bash.bashrc + ~/.bashrc for bash), but not the login configs > (e.g. /etc/profile + ~/.profile). > > So the simple fix was just to type: > C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login > > or > > C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\ksh93.exe --login > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > > P.S.: Which reminds me - is there a way to contribute a Cygwin ksh93 package ?
We would greatly appreciate a Korn Shell 93 package, preferably with some POSIX builtin commands. Thanks, Martin -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
