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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
Subject: Re: Bash shell extension ?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:21:02 -0700
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Donald MacVicar wrote:

> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Sam Edge wrote:
>>
>>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere]
>>> @="&Bash Prompt Here"
>>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
>>> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash\""
>>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere]
>>> @="&Bash Prompt Here"
>>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere\command]
>>> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash\""
>>
>>
>> Personally I'm fond of "Bash this!" instead of "Bash Prompt Here" :-) !
>>
>> Also, the above does not handle the issue of the user's startup 
>> scripts. Here's what I have:
>>
>> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere]
>> @="B&ash this!"
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
>> @="rxvt -e bash -c \"cd '%1';exec bash -rcfile ~/.bash_login\""
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere]
>> @="B&ash this!"
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere\command]
>> @="rxvt -e bash -c \"cd '%1';exec bash -rcfile ~/.bash_login\""
>>
>> Note if you do not wish to use rxvt then simply remove the "rxvt -e " 
>> portion. This also makes the assumption that Cygwin's bin is in your 
>> Windows System Environment variable PATH (which is should be, 
>> especially if you use inetd) and that you've appropriately named your 
>> bash startup stuff .bash
>
>
> surely you could just have @="rxvt -ls -e bash -c \"cd '%1'; exec bash 
> --login\"" and then all the startup scripts would be run properly? 

Nope! Because --login runs /etc/profile and /etc/profile cd's to $HOME!

>




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