On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Dave wrote: > --- Andrew Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > Igor Pechtchanski said: > > > > Does anyone know of a way to get a `-` at the start of $0? I believe > > > > this will force all the shells to start as login shells and is the > > > > most generic solution. > > > > > > Sure. 'bash -c "exec -l $PROG $ARGS"'. :-) > > > > Ya beat me to it :) Although, in the current design, this would make > > a bash shell call a login shell call a normal shell (for the cd) which > > is a bit of a quoting nightmare. Not necessarily. Have bash set the variable and 'exec' the shell -- and then rely on the startup script to do the 'cd'... > > You could make a support script (/bin/shere) that did somehting like > > this: > > Thanks guys. My brains been turned to slush reading all the different > shell man pages (as you may have figured from my last few emails). > > It turns out that on windows 2k, if you remove the cd $HOME from the > appropriate login script, you can just `/bin/tcsh -l`. Since 2k puts you > in the appropriate path anyway. > > Nice. It even works with network paths. > > Can anyone confirm this works on 9x, NT and XP? > > If it does work on all platforms, it's my preferred route. It'll still > need: > an env var for the startup scripts to check > a shell script (which may be chere) to set the variable > > And will mean you have a spare sh for every term opened in this manner. Umm, as I said above, you can set the variable in the bash command, and use 'exec -l' to spawn the shell. As long as the startup scripts have to recognize the variable anyway, they might as well do the 'cd'... :-) HTH, Igor > Dave. > > i.e. comment out the cd $HOME line, run something like: > regtool set /HKLM/Directory/shell/cygwin_tcsh/command/ "c:\cygwin\bin\rxvt -e > /bin/tcsh -l" > > Or just edit your registry and give the menu a spin. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
