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Re: csh Shell


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Alexis Cothenet wrote:
>
> > I have installed cygwin but i see that my defautl shell (doing echo
> > $SHELL) is bash. I would prefer to have csh shell. Do you know how i could
> > proceed ?
>
> Alexis,
>
> Cygwin doesn't have pure csh, but it does have tcsh, which should be
> compatible.
>
> To make it your "default" shell, you need to do two things:
> 1) Edit your /cygwin.bat and make it invoke "tcsh -l" instead of "bash
>    --login -i".  That way, when you click on the Cygwin shortcut, you'll
>    get tcsh[*].
> 2) Edit your /etc/profile, and change the shell entry from /bin/bash to
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Whoops, sorry!  Correction: s/profile/passwd/
	Igor

>    /bin/tcsh.
>
> This should do it.  HTH,
> 	Igor
> [*] There is a /bin/csh, but it's a Cygwin symlink, and you won't be able
> to invoke it via Windows mechanisms.

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