Bash Prompt Here

[Evan McLean <ev at deathsdoor dot com>]

Hi,

I've come up with a way to right-click on a directory in Windows Explorer 
and have a menu option called "Bash Prompt Here" that will open a bash 
prompt with the selected directory as the current one.  It's a bit kludgy, 
but I thought I'd submit it for any who may find it useful.  Works under 
Win98 and WinME.  Be interested to know how it goes on NT variants.

This is using cygwin 1.x and assumes that your cygwin installation is in 
"c:\cygwin" which is mounted as your root directory.  Change to suite your 
own environment.

Create a file "c:\cygwin\start_at.bat" with the following three lines:

	@echo off
	echo cd %1 > c:\cygwin\start_dir.txt
	c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

Add the following four lines to the end of "/etc/profile" (or 
"c:\cygwin\etc\profile"):

	if [ -f /start_dir.txt ] ; then
	  . /start_dir.txt
	  rm /start_dir.txt
	fi

Lastly, apply the following registry patch file (which I name 
"bash_prompt_here.reg"):
----------snip----------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere]
@="&Bash Prompt Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 /c C:\\cygwin\\start_at.bat \"%L\""

----------snip----------

That's it.  If anybody can offer any improvements, let me know.

E.


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