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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: zsh as login shell Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:05:29 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <12jp8mrgs23ef$.1b20pqkmkl3w2.dlg@40tude.net> References: <6F0CB04509C11D46A54232E852E390AC44B951@MCHP7R6A.ww002.siemens.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes * Igor Pechtchanski (2005-10-24 16:36 +0100) > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote: >> I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under >> Cygwin... >> [snip] >> Zsh considers itself a login shell iff it is called under a name >> starting with a dash. >> [snip] >> Another possibility would be to execute a shell script using bash and in >> this script do an >> >> exec -a -zsh zsh -I >> >> But maybe someone knows a better way to do this? > > The latter sounds like the best solution. You could do it directly from > the batch file by using > > bash -c 'exec -l /usr/bin/zsh -i' zsh perfectly knows -l/--login. It's the "-i" that's not needed -- 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/