zsh as login shell
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Mon Oct 24 15:36:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote:
> I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under
> Cygwin...
> [snip]
> Zsh considers itself a login shell iff it is called under a name
> starting with a dash.
> [snip]
> Another possibility would be to execute a shell script using bash and in
> this script do an
>
> exec -a -zsh zsh -I
>
> But maybe someone knows a better way to do this?
The latter sounds like the best solution. You could do it directly from
the batch file by using
bash -c 'exec -l /usr/bin/zsh -i'
HTH,
Igor
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