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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:  Re: zsh as login shell
Date:  Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:28:32 +0100
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* Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 (2005-10-24 11:11 +0100)
> I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under
> 
> Cygwin, similar to the standard Cygwin Icon which runs a bash login
> shell,
> so that I can choose whether to get a window using bash or using zsh.

mkzsh
 
> It works kind of, but I can't get zsh executed as login shell. The BAT
> file
> invoking the bash login shell calls bash using
> 
>   bash --login -i
> 
> but zsh has no equivalent to the --login option, so I just use
> 
>   zsh -i

Please, start making sense:
zsh --help | grep -- --login
 

> But maybe someone knows a better way to do this?

Start reading the fine zsh manual *now*, please


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