On 2022-03-22 16:35, Piotr Gliźniewicz wrote:
I'm trying to run a command at a specific "Windows" path. Basically
something similar to what chere does for bash, but I want to execute ls
in bash for a specific directory. I've tried variations of what chere
leaves in the registry:
C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -c "/bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe '%L'"
Adding simply `-c ls` didn't work.
To start with something simpler I've launched bash and tried just to
guess what xhere want's, but I don't really know what's happening. I
couldn't find any help for xhere.
/cygdrive/c
$ /bin/xhere '/bin/bash.exe -c ls' d:
/bin/xhere: line 38: [: too many arguments
/bin/xhere: line 41: [: too many arguments
/bin/xhere: line 64: [: too many arguments
Starting /bin/bash.exe -c ls
-/bin/bash: ls: command not found
/cygdrive/c
$ /bin/xhere "/bin/bash.exe -c ls" d:
/bin/xhere: line 38: [: too many arguments
/bin/xhere: line 41: [: too many arguments
/bin/xhere: line 64: [: too many arguments
Starting /bin/bash.exe -c ls
-/bin/bash: ls: command not found
Any hints, how to properly pass `/bin/bash.exe -c ls` to xhere?
$ file `which xhere`
/usr/bin/xhere: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable
$ head `which xhere`
#!/bin/bash
# Have to use bash; can't get ash to "exec -l"
# Separate script from chere to avoid need for argument parsing
#
# first arg is shell
# second arg is the path
...
Can't do that: xhere expects shell path /bin/*sh* and directory path and
runs under bash so it can run exec -l to exec shell as login shell after
cd dir.
Starting XWin Server from a shortcut uses:
C:\...\cygwin...\bin\run.exe --quote /bin/bash -l -c "cd; exec
/bin/startxwin"
so you could base a commnad line on that.
You could also install and use Cygwin-X with a GUI file manager like
PcManFM, or a text version like Midnight Commander (package mc).
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