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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:25:25 -0500
From: Mike Rushton <mrushton AT ptd DOT net>
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Thanks for all the help.

What I am trying to do is convert some Korn Shell scripts to bash to run 
under Cygwin.

I am wondering,  does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ?  
It  probably does not matter.   Some of the scripts had .ksh on the end 
of them.
I want to make everything uniform now that I am moving to Cygwin.






On 2/4/2014 3:55 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>
> On 04/02/2014 20:19, mrushton wrote:
>> I am loving Cygwin.
>>
>> I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some 
>> newbie questions.
>>
>>
>> 1)  When I go to execute a script, do I just type the name of it or 
>> do i have to do a ./NameOfScript ?
>
> just the name if it is located in one of the PATH directories as any 
> other command. instead "./NameOfScript" if you want to execute a 
> script or a command not in the PATH
>
> For your own script " ~/bin" is a nice location
>
> This is a generic Unix FAQ.
>
>
>> 2)  I am trying to do an Alias of the Clear Command ... in my bashrc 
>> I has an alias for clear to do a printf "\033c".   Well it does not 
>> seem to work from my scripts, but works from shell prompt.
>> Is this a path issue ?
>
> How you call the script ?
>
> See on "info bash" at "6.2 Bash Startup Files"
>
>
>> 3)  I am still trying to figure out how to open a termial window and 
>> have a menu script always run.
>> Should I put this in my .profile or is there a better way to do this ?
>
> Do you need a standalone run, so the terminal close after, or you need 
> to drop to bash after the script ?
>
> Your solution is fine for the second case, while on the first
> you need to adapt the
>
> "mintty.exe /bin/bash -l" to "mintty.exe /bin/bash -C yourscript"
>
>
>> Thanks for all the work of the Cygwin team.
>>
>
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