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Re: FW: Bash Prompt Here?
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- Subject: Re: FW: Bash Prompt Here?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:55:21 -0400
- Cc: gcoakley at mqsoftware dot com
- References: <E1B42CFD544FD31193EE0000E87C5CE799B51E@mailserver2.mqsoftware.com>
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cgf
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:44:11PM -0500, Glen Coakley wrote:
>I have updated my version of this to incorporate Ross Smith's .inf
>idea, thus allowing it to be used on Windows <whatever>. There is also
>an install script that will locate your cygwin root directory. It does
>not run bash twice like Ross' solution but it does require changes to
>our .bashrc but it wraps them in an 'if cygwin' check so that they will
>only be invoked if you are running under cygwin. (I share my .bashrc
>with my Unix box.) The changes are also designed to insulate you from
>cygwin upgrades by not modifying any of the distributed files nor
>making any assumptions about them except for the existence of certain
>tools (regtool, cygpath, cut, cat, grep, sed and, of course bash).
>
>http://www.users.qwest.net/~weissj/BashPromptHere.tar.gz