X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: native console apps from #!/bin/sh scripts Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:34:22 -0800 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <4D7A008D.8020807@cpan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15pre) Gecko/20110207 Lightning/1.0b2 Shredder/3.1.9pre In-Reply-To: <4D7A008D.8020807@cpan.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 03/11/11 02:59, Rafael Kitover wrote: > I can run native console apps from a console in a cygwin shell fine, > however, for some reason they don't work correctly from a #!/bin/sh script. > > E.g., for activestate perl: > > TERM=dumb /c/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell > > run from zsh prompt works correctly with readline support. > > Now if I put that in a script: > > #!/bin/sh > > TERM=dumb /c/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell > > then when I run the script the readline support is disabled for some reason. > > What are differences in environment in a script as opposed to the > regular prompt that would cause this? And is there a workaround? > > Does it have something to do with STDIN redirection away from the console? Have you tried using Cygwin's Perl instead of ActiveState? -- Andrew DeFaria If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? -- 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