how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash

[Randall R Schulz]

Damien,

Here's the stock Cygwin.bat file:

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@echo off

D:
chdir \cygwin\bin

bash --login -i
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All you have to do to substitute tcsh for BASH is change the last line. 
The options are slightly different, though (check the man page, of course):

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@echo off

D:
chdir \cygwin\bin

tcsh -l
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However, I find it more straightforward to create a Windows shortcut 
that launches my shell directly without any BAT file. An easy way to do 
this is to use right-mouse drag on /cygwin/bin/tcsh.exe (which is 
probably C:\cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe or D:\cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe or something 
analogous) to create a copy on the desktop or in the QuickLaunch bar or 
in your Start menu. When you release the mouse, choose "Create 
Shortcut(s) Here". Then open the newly created shortcut's Properties 
dialog and make any changes you like, such as window size and 
placement, font and cursor preferences, background and foreground 
colors, etc. (QuickEdit mode is usually a good idea). I like to give 
the shortcut the Cygwin icon, which is conveniently available in 
/Cygwin.ico. I recommend setting the "Start in:" field to you Cygwin 
home directory. In the "Target:" field be sure to add the "-l" (login 
shell) option.

 From now on, you can start a tcsh shell in a new console window by 
activating this shortcut.

Good luck.

Randall Schulz


At 18:05 2003-07-24, Damien Suttle wrote:
>Hi,
>my favorite shell is tcsh, but cygwin always starts up in bash.  I 
>tried playing with the cygwin.bat file, but i couldn't get it to 
>work.  does anyone know how to reconfigure cygwin to start up in other shells?
>
>Thank you.


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