On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 9:35 AM Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > On 2023-08-13 11:40, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 12:53 AM Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:38 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS) via Cygwin > >> wrote: > >>>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 6:18 AM Roland Mainz 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... > > >>> 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. > > >> 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 > >> 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. > > $ cygcheck -p Korn > Found 6 matches for Korn > mksh-53a-1-src - mksh-src: MirBSD Korn Shell (source) > mksh-54-1-src - mksh-src: MirBSD Korn Shell (source) > mksh-56c-1-src - mksh-src: MirBSD Korn Shell (source) > mksh-53a-1 - mksh: MirBSD Korn Shell > mksh-54-1 - mksh: MirBSD Korn Shell > mksh-56c-1 - mksh: MirBSD Korn Shell > > https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/mksh-src.html
I know about that, but it has only ksh88 compatibility. What would be great is the real ksh93, with IEEE754-style floating point math, compound variables, and regex with ~(X) (egrep with logical AND), ~(E), .sh.match pattern matching facilities. 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
