Re: Bash Prompt Here

[Luke Bakken <luke_bakken at yahoo dot com>]

Actually, this does not work, as you are not passing the directory
argument to bash in any way.

You can try this, however, given to me by someone else recently on this
mailing list:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
   c:\cygwin\sygwin2.bat %1

where cygwin2.bat =

@set STARTIN=%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
@c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i

Then, in your /etc/profile, change the cd $HOME line to this:

if [ ! -z "$STARTIN" ]; then
   if [ -d "$STARTIN" ]; then
     cd "$STARTIN"
   else
     echo "$STARTIN is not a valid path."
     cd $HOME
   fi
   unset STARTIN
else
   cd $HOME
fi

Mind that there is a limit with this solution to the number of spaces in
the directory argument.  The method of redirecting %1 to a file also works
well, and actually was my first solution, but i like the above better.  
The real problem is that, unlike cmd.exe, bash does not support an
"initial command" argument like the /K switch on cmd.exe.  There is a -c
argument to bash, but bash exits after executing that command.



On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Andy Philpotts wrote:

> Hello Evan,
> 
> This seems a little simpler to me:
> 
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
>    d:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i
> 
> No extra files or indirection needed
> 
> Monday, October 02, 2000, 6:20:09 PM, you wrote:
> 
> EM> Hi,
> 
> EM> I've come up with a way to right-click on a directory in Windows Explorer 
> EM> and have a menu option called "Bash Prompt Here" that will open a bash 
> EM> prompt with the selected directory as the current one.  It's a bit kludgy, 
> EM> but I thought I'd submit it for any who may find it useful.  Works under 
> EM> Win98 and WinME.  Be interested to know how it goes on NT variants.
> 
> EM> This is using cygwin 1.x and assumes that your cygwin installation is in 
> EM> "c:\cygwin" which is mounted as your root directory.  Change to suite your 
> EM> own environment.
> 
> EM> Create a file "c:\cygwin\start_at.bat" with the following three lines:
> 
> EM>         @echo off
> EM>         echo cd %1 > c:\cygwin\start_dir.txt
> EM>         c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
> 
> EM> Add the following four lines to the end of "/etc/profile" (or 
> EM> "c:\cygwin\etc\profile"):
> 
> EM>         if [ -f /start_dir.txt ] ; then
> EM>           . /start_dir.txt
> EM>           rm /start_dir.txt
> EM>         fi
> 
> EM> Lastly, apply the following registry patch file (which I name 
> EM> "bash_prompt_here.reg"):
> EM> ----------snip----------
> EM> REGEDIT4
> 
> EM> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere]
> EM> @="&Bash Prompt Here"
> 
> EM> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
> EM> @="C:\\WINDOWS\\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 /c C:\\cygwin\\start_at.bat \"%L\""
> 
> EM> ----------snip----------
> 
> EM> That's it.  If anybody can offer any improvements, let me know.
> 
> EM> E.
> 
> 
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