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Re: Deafult to bash so $chere will work (possibly?)


HOORAY! Thanks Andrey, this command worked for me:

$ chere -i -t mintty -s bash

DAYS of trying to figure this out. Thank-you!
Michelle

PS No problems about the english - it's better than my Russian :)


On 24 August 2014 09:36, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Michelle Pace!
>
>> I would like Cygwin in the context menu of my Windows 7 machine (I
>> have admin rights).
>
>> I'm not sure really why the chere command is not working
>
> It works as long as you get the context menu entry after it's invocation.
>
>> since I've just read "sh is actually really bash"
>
> That's right, it IS bash in Cygwin, but...
>
>> and my .bashrc file is definitely getting used. Additionally there is
>> nothing in my passwd file as I thought I should just replace "sh" with
>> "bash". Finally, setting $SHELL to /bin/bash also did not work.
>
> The devil is in the details. When you don't explicitly call bash, it is
> getting called as /bin/sh and fall back to POSIX compatibility mode.
>
>> QUESTION: Could anyone please point out what I need to do to get my
>> chere command working?
>
> Simple answer: you're doing it wrong. But that's not enough - you're not
> reading/ignoring what the tool tell you.
>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> My Story
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> $ chere -i -t mintty
>>     Shell defaulting to sh defined for MP
>>     /usr/bin/chere Error: Unknown shell sh
>
> chere -t mintty -s bash
> or -s /bin/bash, I dunno...
>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 24.08.2014, <11:32>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>

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