Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems (such as Linux, BSD, and Unix systems) to Windows.
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Execute bash script using CygWin
How do you execute a bash script using CygWin? I am trying execute a bash script as part of a build.xml. This is the code snippet,
<property name="cygwinpath" value="C:/cygwin/bin/"/>
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ssh/scp works but rsync just constantly says “no”
Hi I have a windows 2003 server that I need to back up onto a linux client so I install cygwin on the Win2k3. On the Win2k3 I have enabled ssh, scp but (because the Win2k3 server uses an customised ...
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Connection closed by remote host [closed]
Restarted a machine with cygwin installed, getting a weird error after password success. Has anyone run into this before?
user@172.XXX.XXX.XXX's password:
debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for ...
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I'm able to remotely ssh into Cygwin on XP, but it warns “Could not chdir to home directory” and my /bin is almost empty
I've made a firewall exception, opened ports 22 through 443 to the correct internal IP (I think), and am able to log in using my external IP, but it's like I have very limited view access to almost ...
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Run a command at a certain time in cygwin
I am writing a bash (.sh) script for cygwin. I want to run a certain command at specific time.
I tried the following:
echo "test" | at 19:00
but I get the following error:
The AT command has been ...
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Reading from USB serial port under Cygwin
I am actually using Cygwin, but it is my understanding that it responds to Unix commands so hopefully I am in the correct place.
I have an Arduino hooked up via USB to my LapTop for data reading.
I ...
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Why is the output of find sorted in Cygwin but not in Solaris?
I wonder why find does not behave in the same way in Solaris as in Cygwin or Linux.
I have a bunch of directories that have files called CS##########. Each # is a digits but there are always 10 ...
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Delete all but largest file of specific type
I am trying to organise the album art in my music collection so that only one image is assigned to each folder.
My directory structure currently looks like:
/path/to/music/Album Name/
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“watch” command not found in Cygwin? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Cygwin has no watch command?
I am in the process of learning Unix commands; I started a few days back. I read a post here and tried to use the watch command, but my ...
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Need help configuring Openssh on Win2008 via CYGWIN [closed]
I am trying to configure an OpenSSH server on Windows Server 2008 Datacenter via CYGWIN. I have installed and configured CYGWIN with OpenSSH and Basic LinuxUtils. I am logging onto the system on a ...
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Why does insert-mode map “<F4>” unpredictably inserts itself or executes intended key strokes?
In Vim 7.3.1-762, mintty 1.1.2 (xterm), cygwin, Windows XP, the insert-mode map <F4> executes the intended key strokes at one time but inserts itself at another time. This undeterministic ...
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Pausing rsync via bash script?
Is there a way to pause rsync via command line, if it transfers data for over X minutes? I'm working on using it as a backup and would like it to pause every once in a while to prevent the hard disks ...
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Remote GUI login from Windows machine to Linux machine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Accessing Linux server from Windows machine in graphical mode via SSH
How I can login to a remote CentOS' GUI from my Windows 7 laptop?
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Cygwin: readline lib loaded in different locations
Within cygwin, almost each unix command I type prints a warning message, takes time and eventually gives a correct result:
-bash-4.1$ ls
0 [main] bash 7468 child_info_fork::abort: cygreadline7.dll: ...
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groff to PS Conversion
I am very new to UNIX, learning groff with the help of cygwin on Windows XP SP3.
I have downloaded groff-binaries from here, but using cygwin, I could not able to re-produce ps files.
I have used ...
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Is there a way to control the speed at which Curl reports progress?
I'm using Curl in Cygwin to automate a daily download. I want to keep progress in a log but Curl is just a little too noisy for my taste. I tried man curl and Google, but didn't find anything.
Can I ...
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how to grep for c:\
I'm using cygwin's grep to find all instances of hardcoded paths on c drive.
doing:
grep -r "c:\\" .
gives grep: trailing backslash
Does anybody know how I can do this?
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is it possible to trigger `ssh-add <key>` only when I ssh into a box? (from Cygwin)
I've got my .bash_profile set up to eval $(ssh-agent) so I can quickly connect to servers. If I add ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_my_key to my .bash_profile as well, I'll have to type the ssh key passphrase ...
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Why is Cygwin not sourcing my .bashrc?
I'm switching to Cygwin from the bash shell that ships with Git for Windows, and for some strange reason the .bashrc file is not being sourced when I open a new Terminal. I have to
source .bashrc
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How do I get rid of Cygwin's /cygdrive prefix in all paths?
I'm switching to Cygwin from the bash shell that ships with Git for Windows, and encountering a strange problem. Someone thought it would be a good idea to add /cygdrive/ to all paths, while I think ...
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651 views
Why is vim creating files with DOS line endings?
I have
set fileformat=unix
in my .vimrc, and yet if I create a file in vim (running in Cygwin) it persists in creating DOS files, and I have to run the little cotton-pickers through dos2unix to ...
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I'm not getting syntax coloring in vim (using Cygwin)
I've been so far unable to figure out why vim's syntax coloring is not working for most files, and it's driving me batty.
In case this is relevant: I'm working in Cygwin (more ...
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How do I get bcvi installed and working (with Cygwin and Perl 5.8.8)?
I'm trying to install bcvi (under Cygwin), and there are apparently no directions that apply to this setup. The directions at http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/bcvi/#installation state that ...
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Cygwin installation message [closed]
I want to ask about this error? The error states :
This is the first time you've installed Cygwin 1.7.x. Please be
advised that this is a major release. If you have not done so already,
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Change string occurrences in file while respecting DOS new line sequences
I use Visual Studio for my C# development while using Cygwin for some of the tasks that require scripting. Recently I wanted to change all occurrences of string AAA to BBB in my project's files. I ...
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For cygwin, how do I export the output in a terminal into a file?
I'd like to be able to export the output (and error messages) of my cygwin terminal in a file, especially since I have to click a lot of buttons in order to "mark" the stuff in the cygwin terminal ...
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How do I preserve the history file of cygwin bash across independent sessions?
So my home directory does have a .bash_history file, but it refuses to grow any bigger for some reason. I've already changed the .bashrc settings to set the history size to 99999 and the history file ...
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Cygwin has no watch command?
I installed Cygwin on my Windows XP to use some of its commands. Now I what to check a file every 2 minutes and want to use watch for this purpose but I see that Cygwin has no such command. Is this ...
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find command in cygwin giving parameter format not correct
I am using cygwin in my windows machine. I am trying to do a find and it is giving parameter format not correct. Why is that?
$ ls
bootstrap.jar
catalina-tasks.xml
catalina.bat
catalina.sh
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CUPS compilation fails on Cygwin
I was brave and tried to compile CUPS in a 32-bit Cygwin environment. I used the standard sources from the tarball.
All went fine until linking.
http://pastebin.com/QSKvLSmT
Here's the end of the ...
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Why are these aliases failing?
I am attempting to put some alias definitions in .bashrc. Like this:
#Convienience aliases
alias ll='ls -l'
alias ldir='ls -p | grep "/"'
#Temporary aliases
alias mvFooLog='mv ~/Projects/Foo/Log.txt ...
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How can we rename a file with semi-colon as part of the filename?
I tried to rename all file with extension "XLS;1" to "XLS" but it just didn't work.
I tried the following in cygwin in windows xp and they don't work:
mv *.XLS;1 *.XLS
mv *.XLS\;1 *.XLS
mv ...
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need portable crontab host-checking/failover logic across Linux & Cygwin
A host-ping test that always works correctly from the interactive bash command line in Cygwin, is behaving incorrectly in its own crontab--always selecting the second host--and I can't figure out why:
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Why doesn't my new cygwin .bashrc interactive check work?
I just updated Cygwin and the new .bashrc contains this line right at the top:
echo "BEFORE TEST"
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ "$-" != *i* ]] && return
echo "AFTER ...
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Vi for cygwin syntax
How can make vi in cygwin highlight syntax when I open a file by default? I know that I can type in the command "syntax on" but I would prefer to not do this all the time.
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Command-line tool to search docx files
Is there a command-line tool to text-search a docx file? I tried grep, but it doesn't work with docx even though it works fine with txt and xml files. I could convert the docx to txt first, but I'd ...
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Using cygwin and rsync — “password file must not be other-accessible”
I've finally got an old computer of mine running as a backup server with Ubuntu 11.10. I'm planning on using it to backup my Windows 7 machine weekly using rsync. I've got cygwin installed, and rsync ...
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How to Cygwin Xwin -query an Ubuntu 11.10 Xserver?
I am running Cygwin 1.7 on Win7 Pro x64, and I can query my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server just fine.
XWin.exe -clipboard -once -rootless -nodecoration -notrayicon -query $IP_ADDRESS
I recently installed ...
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printf white space character in bash script
How can the white space character be escaped in printf for the purpose of this script that currently runs in a Cygwin client? The line containing the whitespace (which by itself works from the command ...
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installing column unix utility on windows
I would like to be able to use the BSD unix utilities: column, join and paste in my Cygwin installation. It seems that they are not available, or I cannot find them. Is there a way to install them so ...
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How to alter PATH within bash script?
I have several projects that require me to change versions of Java/Grails/Maven. I'm trying to handle this with some Bash scripts that would make the changes. For example:
#!/bin/sh
export ...
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How can I make custom key bindings work even while SSH-ed into another machine?
I've added
"\eOD": backward-word
"\eOC": forward-word
to my .inputrc to get ctrl-arrow key mappings sorted out in Cygwin allowing me to move forward and back fine.
When I SSH to any other Linux ...
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setting Cygwin's $HOME to Windows profile directory
Are there any drawbacks to having Cygwin and Windows share the same $HOME directory, in this case the Windows profile directory?
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Alternative to `pkill` or `pgrep -f` on cygwin?
Suppose I have starting my process like:
java -DSOME_STRING -jar foo.jar
Then on linux, I can use the following to find or kill this process:
pgrep -f SOME_STRING
pkill -f SOME_STRING
However ...
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An equivalent to OS X's “open” in Cygwin?
I know this may be a slightly strange question, plus the fact that I'm asking it here. The reason is that whenever I ask Windows-people about this, or even regular Cygwin-users, they don't seem to ...
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Best way to use a shell with Cygwin in Windows 7
I installed Cygwin, to be disappointed that bash by default runs within "cmd.exe". I googled around and found Console2. It's not a particularly well-designed application, as doing adjustments is ...
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find first line beginning with <keyword> following <other-keyword>
let's present my problem to explain better. I'm using cygwin, the installation is based on a setup.ini with the following format:
@ package-name
sdesc: "short description, on one line"
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How to map ALT key in .vimrc?
In order to be able add blank lines without going into insertion mode, I'm trying to map ALT-o and ALT-O to o<ESC> and o<ESC>
I've tried the following in my .vimrc
map <M-o> ...
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Git - remove deleted files
I'm using this simple git alias
rmdel = "!git rm $(git ls-files -d)"
meant "remove deleted", i.e. to remove from the staging area all files deleted from the file system. It works fine except ...
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Are cygwin vim commands different than normal vim?
I am unable to edit text files using vim in cygwin.
I have to press i many times to insert text. Sometimes it works and sometimes doesn't. Whenever I move cursor up down I have to press I many times.
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