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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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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Is cygwin like wine, but for linux applications?
Does cygwin work line wine, providing a compatibility layer inside a foreign os?
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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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How can I set up Cygwin to automatically update and download without the GUI?
How can I set up Cygwin to automatically update itself?
How can I get Cygwin to download a package without having to go via the GUI thing?
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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 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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How to add a feature to Vim if it's not compiled with that feature?
I am trying to use clewn (full gdb support in the vim editor), but the vim I have on my box doesn't have the netbeans_intg feature enabled. Is it possible to enable it without recompiling vim?
I am ...
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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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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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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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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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Is dpkg available for Cygwin?
I don't use Windows all that often, but I've found my self in a position where I'm stuck in front of one quite a bit temporarily. So I've been investigating Cygwin. My question is dpkg available for ...
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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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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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Xterm is not completely erasing field lines
We are running Windows Clients with Cygwin XServer that has a bash script application running on AIX Unix. We have a login script using expect to ssh into the server and then xterm to create the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 $IP_ADDRESS
I recently installed ...
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Cygwin: readline lib loaded in different locations
Within cygwin, almost each unix command I type prints a warning message, takes time and eventually gives a correct result:
-bash-4.1$ ls
0 [main] bash 7468 child_info_fork::abort: cygreadline7.dll: ...
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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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How do I configure OpenCV and Cygwin to work together?
I'm trying to configure OpenCV-2.2.0-win32-vs2010 with Cygwin to work together. Any ideas on how can I do that?
Thanks
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Alias in cygwin bash doesn't seem to run in the right order
I am trying to create an alias to use in my Cygwin shell to determine if the Mercurial-managed directory I'm currently in has outstanding changes. The command "hg st -m" lists all modified files. ...
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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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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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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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Compile Linux Application for Windows
I want to use a Linux Application under Windows. It is my understanding that the application is Linux only and to use it in Windows I have to compile the application from the source using Cygwin or ...
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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.
