Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/24/02:26:56
Hi,
Thank you very much for your help, now when i write echo $SHELL i can see
tcsh!
Cheers,
Alexis
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 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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