Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/26/02:00:55
I only have ntsec in $CYGWIN.
I tried your advise below but "cygpath -w -l" returns garbage!
The very first problem is that env CFH="%1" in the register inserts the short windows form.
Is it possible to force windows to insert the long form?
:-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> Sent: den 25 september 2002 23:02
> To: Gunnar Boström
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: Open bash at the current explorer directory?
>
>
> Gunnar,
> I assume your $CYGWIN contains "check_case:strict", since that is the
> setting in which the short paths won't work. They will work
> if $CYGWIN
> contains "check_case:adjust". So, you can use the following
> sequence in
> your .bashrc to get the correct form of the windows path:
>
> if [ -n "$CFH" ] ; then
> CFH="$(export CYGWIN="$CYGWIN check_case:adjust";cygpath
> -w -l "$CFH")"
> cd "$CFH"
> unset CFH
> fi
>
> Hope this helps,
> Igor
>
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] Gunnar Boström wrote:
>
> > This works fine except that I get the windows short form of the
> > directories in the CFH variable.
> > I've tried filtering through cygpath but no luck.
> > Any suggestion?
> >
> > :-?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Frantisek Dufka [mailto:dufkaf AT seznam DOT cz]
> > > Sent: den 18 september 2002 10:56
> > > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > > Subject: Re: Open bash at the current explorer directory?
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know how to do it without using .bashrc, but this
> > > works for me
> > > (current cygwin, NT 4.0)
> > >
> > > Registry key contains:
> > >
> > > D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sb -sr -sl 16384 -fn fixedsys -fg
> > > gray -bg black
> > > -e /bin/env CFH="%1" /bin/bash --login
> > >
> > > .bashrc contains
> > >
> > > if [ "$CFH" != "" ] ; then
> > > cd "$CFH"
> > > unset CFH
> > > fi
> > >
> > > No temporary files, bash.exe or .bash_profile is not
> executed twice.
> > > Also looks like cygpath -u is not needed, DOS paths seem to
> > > work in cd
> > > command.
> > >
> > > Frantisek
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------
> > > * John Daniel Doucette <john DOT doucette AT jjmackay DOT ca>
> [13-09-02 15:23]:
> > > > I am using Win2000 Pro, SP3. Is there a way to invoke an
> > > interactive bash
> > > > shell at a particular directory, without using a .bashrc
> > > or similar
> > > file?
> > > > I.e. on the command lie alone? The --login and -c options
> > > appear to be
> > > > mutually exclusive. I would like to be able browse
> quickly to a
> > > directory
> > > > with explorer, option/right click on the directory, then
> > > select a custom
> > > > "open with cygwin" option, and have the bash shell open at that
> > > > directory. Has anyone tried this?
> > >
> > > Read this from the archive.
> > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01648.html
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Jens
> > >
> > >
> >
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