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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 <mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3 DOT com AT siemens DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: zsh as login shell
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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'

HTH,
	Igor
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