Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:26:40 +0100 (CET) From: Alexis Cothenet X-X-Sender: cothenet@mard02.in2p3.fr To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: csh Shell In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. > > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total > Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/