Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/21/12:34:22
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Alexis Cothenet wrote:
>
> > I have installed cygwin but i see that my defautl shell (doing echo
> > $SHELL) is bash. I would prefer to have csh shell. Do you know how i could
> > proceed ?
>
> Alexis,
>
> Cygwin doesn't have pure csh, but it does have tcsh, which should be
> compatible.
>
> To make it your "default" shell, you need to do two things:
> 1) Edit your /cygwin.bat and make it invoke "tcsh -l" instead of "bash
> --login -i". That way, when you click on the Cygwin shortcut, you'll
> get tcsh[*].
> 2) Edit your /etc/profile, and change the shell entry from /bin/bash to
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Whoops, sorry! Correction: s/profile/passwd/
Igor
> /bin/tcsh.
>
> This should do it. HTH,
> Igor
> [*] There is a /bin/csh, but it's a Cygwin symlink, and you won't be able
> to invoke it via Windows mechanisms.
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