How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

[Randall R Schulz]

Steve,

I see. This will work if a simple invocation of "bash" with no options 
is acceptable.

1) Make sure Cygwin's /bin or /usr/bin directory are in your system-wide PATH.
2) Invoke "cygstart bash" (don't type the quotes, of course)

A new window appears running a new instance of BASH.

If you want to run a script so you can do more sophisticated start-up 
processing (or simply passing some options to bash), you'll need to set 
up an association for a suffix (possibly .sh or .bash) and create a 
script with such a name and start that with cygstart.

You'll need to install the "cygutils" package to get "cygstart."

Randall Schulz


At 09:17 2003-02-16, Steve wrote:
>Max Bowsher wrote:
>>Steve wrote:
>>
>>>I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and
>>>get bash.
>>>
>>>I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I
>>>activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Please explain what you mean by this.
>>
>>>to switch to bash already executed.
>
>Well right now I can bring up dos and type "bash" to get bash in that window.
>
>I would like not to have to type "bash".
>
>I would like to bring up a dos window and have bash already be there 
>as if I typed bash.
>
>Sorry for not being clear
>
>Steve


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