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cygwin on windows help

Palanikumar — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:04:34 GMT

Hi,

I have installed cygwin on windows to execute shell script to connect
my HPUX servers.
I need to know the editor available for the writing the Shell scripts
and the path for the shell(example : #!/bin/ksh) that needs to be
mentioned in the shell scirpt.

If this is not the right forum, please direct me to the right.

Thanks

Regards
PK

Re: cygwin on windows help

Palanikumar — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:07:28 GMT

Forgot to mention ...
Easy points up for grabs !!!

-PK

Re: cygwin on windows help

Hein van den Heuvel — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:53:48 GMT

Best I know it is 'bash'. Just do a 'man sh'

Also, echo $SHELL returns: /bin/bash

I don't think you need to mention it in you cygwin shell scripts.

fwiw,
Hein.

Re: cygwin on windows help

Sreedharamurthy K — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:14:43 GMT

within a cygwin shell, a regular 'which ksh' should work as normally as on a *NIX system. Try that comand. Whatever that returns you can use that in the script.

IT is usually in /usr/bin or /bin (sometimes it will be a link to /usr/bin).

Re: cygwin on windows help

Court Campbell — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:07:22 GMT

cygwin typically uses bash as the default shell. You should use #!/bin/bash. You could use vim as your editor. and actually since you are on a windows machine you could also use notepad. unless you set it up differently the root directory for cygwin is c:\cygwin.

Re: cygwin on windows help

Armin Kunaschik — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:32:41 GMT

I remember that ksh (pdksh) is not installed by default.
Remember to install vim too for a full featured vi version!

Armin

Re: cygwin on windows help

Court Campbell — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:17:59 GMT

just checked and bash is located at /usr/bin/bash. I also updated my install and added pdksh which is located at /usr/bin/pdksh.

Re: cygwin on windows help

Palanikumar — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:19:28 GMT

:o that was a great help ..!!

Thank you very much!!

Its working fine :D

Re: cygwin on windows help

Court Campbell — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:53:23 GMT

Just to mention, cygwin is also great for setting up the ability to ssh to your windows machine and for setting up nfs on windows. Here are some good howtos:

SSH howto:
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html

NFS Howto:
http://www.csparks.com/CygwinNFS/index.xhtml

Anyway, I thought you might find those interesting. It's nice to be able to scp files from my hp-ux boxes to my windows laptop.

Re: cygwin on windows help

Palanikumar — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:37:17 GMT

Hi Court & others,

Thank you very much for your valuable time and suggestions, It worked well with me.

Thanks Again.

PKs

Re: cygwin on windows help

Palanikumar — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:38:45 GMT

Problem solved and knowledge gained :)

Thanks,
PK