Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-06 Thread Warren Young
On 2/6/2014 01:13, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Warren Young! [C:\home\Daemon]$ bash -c ./foo.sh That's not the same command I gave you. -c changes how bash.exe interprets the following parameter. According to `man bash', that's the correct command to execute scripts with bash. Are yo

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >> [C:\home\Daemon]$ bash -c ./foo.sh > That's not the same command I gave you. -c changes how bash.exe > interprets the following parameter. According to `man bash', that's the correct command to execute scripts with bash. > It matters, because when you right-click a

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Warren Young
On 2/5/2014 18:00, Andrey Repin wrote: [C:\home\Daemon]$ bash -c ./foo.sh That's not the same command I gave you. -c changes how bash.exe interprets the following parameter. It matters, because when you right-click a *.sh file in Windows Explorer, say Open With, then tell Explorer to use

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! > On 2/5/2014 15:07, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >>> But if you associate .sh with bash.exe, then double-click that script >>> from Windows Explorer, it won't work right, since bash.exe will try to >>> run it as a shell script. >> >> Have you actually tried that? > Yep. >> Tr

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Warren Young
On 2/5/2014 15:07, Andrey Repin wrote: But if you associate .sh with bash.exe, then double-click that script from Windows Explorer, it won't work right, since bash.exe will try to run it as a shell script. Have you actually tried that? Yep. Try it, you'll be surprised. I did try it, bef

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrey Repin! >>> I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no >>> extension at all than .sh. >> That said, if you're wanting to be able to double-click on a shell >> script icon in Windows and associate that with Cygwin's bash.exe, you >> *will* need to pick

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! > On 2/5/2014 14:17, Warren Young wrote: >> >> I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no >> extension at all than .sh. > That said, if you're wanting to be able to double-click on a shell > script icon in Windows and associate that with Cygwin'

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mike Rushton! > Right ... the extension is a windows thing. Not really. It's a human thing, that let you tell the intended meaning of the file at a glance. > Most of the bourne shell scripts i have come across have no extension. > Some have the Shebang line ... while others don't have

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >>> does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? >> >> No, the extension can be whatever you like. By convention, bash/sh scripts >> with extensions use ".sh". > I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no > extension at all than .sh. If yo

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Rushton
Right ... the extension is a windows thing. Most of the bourne shell scripts i have come across have no extension. Some have the Shebang line ... while others don't have it. I am still in the planing stages ... I am not sure if I am going to use an extension or not. It might be a good idea to

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Warren Young
On 2/5/2014 14:17, Warren Young wrote: I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in the world with no extension at all than .sh. That said, if you're wanting to be able to double-click on a shell script icon in Windows and associate that with Cygwin's bash.exe, you *will* need to pick

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Warren Young
On 2/5/2014 11:30, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/5/2014 1:25 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? No, the extension can be whatever you like. By convention, bash/sh scripts with extensions use ".sh". I'd bet there are more Bourne shell scripts in th

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/5/2014 1:25 PM, Mike Rushton wrote: Thanks for all the help. What I am trying to do is convert some Korn Shell scripts to bash to run under Cygwin. I am wondering, does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? It probably does not matter. Some of the scripts had .ksh on the end o

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Rushton
Thanks for all the help. What I am trying to do is convert some Korn Shell scripts to bash to run under Cygwin. I am wondering, does cygwin have a preferred extension for scripts ? It probably does not matter. Some of the scripts had .ksh on the end of them. I want to make everything u

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 04/02/2014 20:19, mrushton wrote: I am loving Cygwin. I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some newbie questions. 1) When I go to execute a script, do I just type the name of it or do i have to do a ./NameOfScript ? just the name if it is located in one of the P

Re: Newbie Questions

2014-02-04 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-02-04, mrushton wrote: > I am loving Cygwin. > > I have been reading the manuals and documentation and have some > newbie questions. These are all general Unix/Linux questions, not specific to Cygwin, and are therefor not appropriate for discussion on the cygwin list. That said, I don

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-11-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you had read the list of available lists at http://cygwin.com/lists.html, you would have found the correct list. I did read that page (amongst my other research), but I guess I'm missing s

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-11-01 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If you had read the list of available lists at >> http://cygwin.com/lists.html, you would have found the correct list. > > I did read that page (amongst my other research), but I guess I'm > missing something obvious - what list is

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/31/2006, cygwin wrote: >> Brian Dessent wrote: >>> > >> FYI, this question should have been sent to cygwin-xfree (at) >>> > >> cygwin.com, not here. All X11 topics belong there. >> > > >> > > Sorry, I'm at the stage where I don't know enough to know where to >> > > direct my questions. (

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread cygwin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Leaving 'name' set to your e-mail address is an invitation to be > spammed, ala http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR, since those of > us whose mailers are configured correctly don't always bother to > o

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leaving 'name' set to your e-mail address is an invitation to be spammed, ala http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR, since those of us whose mailers are configured correctly don't always bother to obfuscate addresses that senders leave in 'name'. Brian Dessent w

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread cygwin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E] wrote: > on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > but is there away to double click on a file in Windows and have it > > invoke the bash console and execute my script? > Set up a windows shortcut tha

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> FYI, this question should have been sent to cygwin-xfree (at) >> cygwin.com, not here. All X11 topics belong there. > > Sorry, I'm at the stage where I don't know enough to

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread cygwin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Dessent wrote: > > FYI, this question should have been sent to cygwin-xfree (at) > cygwin.com, not here. All X11 topics belong there. Sorry, I'm at the stage where I don't know enough to know where to direct my questions. (I couldn't see a "beginner" mailin

Re: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread Brian Dessent
FYI, this question should have been sent to cygwin-xfree (at) cygwin.com, not here. All X11 topics belong there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, the "Package List Search" on cygwin.com says that rman is > included in (amongst others) xorg-x11-man-pages which Setup has a > "keep" next to meanin

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread cygwin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E] wrote: > on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got Cygwin set up on Windows XP but have run in to a problem. As > > I understand it things, "rman" is present in the default install of > > Cygwin

RE: Newbie questions: missing packages / script writing

2006-10-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got Cygwin set up on Windows XP but have run in to a problem. As > I understand it things, "rman" is present in the default install of > Cygwin and Setup says it's present, so shouldn't typing "rman" > produce someth

Re: Newbie Questions about Device Drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Peter Eccles
Hi Miles, Not so long ago, I used Cygwin to do some parallel port bit-bashing using cygwin for a major project in my Computer Systems Engineering degree. It involved direct hardware port IO and sounds similar to what you want to do. The idea was to generate a parallel port abstraction layer for