Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/19/10:02:17
Martin,
I believe you're missing the point. Cygwin's bash is *the same* as any
other Unix bash, with the same features. Whatever procedure was used to
associate .pl files with perl on Unix should also work on Cygwin.
One reason I can think of for bash not working the same is if different
configure options were used to build it on the Unix platform you used and
on Cygwin. If so, please find out what the configure options on the Unix
platform were, and post them here. It might be deemed useful enough to
change the build options for Cygwin's bash.
Igor
P.S. Please try not to quote raw e-mail addresses in your replies.
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Martin Gainty wrote:
> Thorsten (et al):
> I have the greatest respect for the incredible job that the CYGWIN
> maintainers have done with BASH shell.
> But the last time I used a bash shell on a Unix platform I was able to setup
> the .pl to perl association but I cannot within CYGWIN..this is a nice to
> have feature which I would prefer to boost to a "must have" feature
> Vielen Dank,
> ~Martin~
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thorsten Kampe" <thorsten<at>thorstenkampe<dot>de>
> To: <cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com>
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association
>
>
> > * Igor Pechtchanski (2004-03-17 20:51 +0100)
> > > Again, since you have no such restrictions, simply change the '#!' line at
> > > the top of your .pl files to '#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (or add it at the very
> > > top if it isn't there). This should be enough to allow you to invoke .pl
> > > files (or any other files, for that matter) from Cygwin shells using perl
> > > (after appropriately 'chmod +x'ing them, of course).
> >
> > Another possibility would be to use a decent shell, hehehe:
> >
> > ,---
> > | New features between zsh versions 4.0 and 4.2
> > | ---------------------------------------------
> > |
> > | Syntax and builtins:
> > | - Suffix aliases allow the shell to run a command on a file by suffix,
> > | e.g `alias -s ps=gv' makes `foo.ps' execute `gv foo.ps'. Supplied
> > | function zsh-mime-setup uses existing mailcap and mime.types files
> > | to set up suitable aliases. Supplied function pick-web-browser is
> > | suitable for finding a browser to show .html etc. files by suffix alias.
> > `---
> >
> > Thorsten
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