cygwin on windows help

[Palanikumar]

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

[Palanikumar]

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

-PK

[Hein van den Heuvel]

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.

[Sreedharamurthy K]

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).

[Court Campbell · Accepted solution]

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.

[Armin Kunaschik]

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

Armin

[Court Campbell]

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.

[Palanikumar]

:o that was a great help ..!!


Thank you very much!!

Its working fine :D

[Court Campbell]

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.

[Palanikumar]

Hi Court & others,

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

Thanks Again.

PKs