Making Cygwin more handy
I enjoy having Cygwin installed on Windows and often like to use the shell commands (grep, find, etc.). However, it’s inconvenient to spawn a new terminal window and slog through the often-complex Windows directory structure. Based off of some websites I found, I now have a way to make this work…
Create a batch script file in your Cygwin /bin folder (for me, this is C:\Cygwin\bin) with the following:
@cd /d %1 @bash --rcfile BASCHRC -i
Create a file called “bashcontext.reg” and save the following text into it:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\bash] @="Open Bash shell here" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\bash\command] @="C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\runBash.bat \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\bash] @="Open Bash shell here" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\bash\command] @="C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\runBash.bat \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\bash] @="Open Bash shell here" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\bash\command] @="C:\\Cygwin\\bin\\runBash.bat \"%1\""
You can add the registry information by double-clicking the file to run it.
Now on every directory you have a “Open Bash shell here” option that will take you there immediately. Handy!
Here’s a screenshot showing my cluttered context menu:
Andrew Flanagan on November 28th 2007 in Actual Events
Vater responded on 28 Nov 2007 at 6:50 pm #
Do, carodd Duw y byd gymaint nes iddo roi ei unig Fab, er mwyn i bob un sy’n credu ynddo ef beidio รข mynd i ddistryw ond cael bywyd tragwyddol.