X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D719B8C.9090904@cs.umass.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:10:20 -0500 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows Shortcut That Runs Cygwin Command References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 3/4/2011 7:38 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: > Hello all. How would i go about creating a shortcut in Windows 7, that > would run a cygwin-only command along with parameters if required? > Rsync is the one i wish to run at the moment, but i also have a few > more in mind like ssh etc. To run bash (for example) there is a shortcut to c:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat. The file contains: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash --login -i This should get you started ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple