Questions tagged [cygwin]
Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems (such as Gnu/Linux, BSD, and UNIX systems) to Windows.
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Cygwin inheritance of Windows's security for cross-account file creation/modificaton?
On a Windows 10 laptop, I have an administrator account Admin, a
non-administrator account User.Name, and the default Public
account.
From either Admin or User.Name accounts, files created in the ~/
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Double click in Cygwin not selecting dot at beginning of paths
I'm having an issue on one of my Cygwin installs where double clicking does not select the dot at the beginning of paths.
Normally I get this behaviour when double clicking a path:
But on the install ...
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How to update the cygwin offline installation folder
I am using a Windows 10 with cygwin installed on it and also need to install cygwin on a series of machines that have no internet access
The solution I found is to run the cygwin setup program, and ...
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how to fix /usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after '$HOME/toolchain/glibc-build/cstdlibT'
I'm using cygwin building glibc-2.25. I've followed up to http://clfs.org/view/sysvinit/x86_64/cross-tools/glibc-64.html.
I've compiled
File-5.31
Linux-4.9.21 Headers
M4-1.4.18
Ncurses-6.0
Pkg-config-...
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Cygwin: Open a file in default windows text viewer even if extension is otherwise associated
I would like to open a file from Cygwin into Windows' configured text viewer, even if that file type is not associated with the text viewer already (i.e. Windows doesn't consider it a text file).
For ...
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Using "cygcheck" to "find the package to which FILE belongs"
According to my Cygwin setup program "setup-x86_64.exe", I have package texlive-collection-latexextra version 20220321-1. The Cygwin package search page says that this package should ...
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I want to set a user's home directory to a folder on another drive in Cygwin OpenSSH
I want to set up a user's home directory to be run on a separate drive from the drive where the Cygwin home directory is located. I have ensured this directory exists and the passwd file and ...
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Which package contains cygisccfg-163.dll
I get:
C:/cygwin64/bin/host.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygisccfg-163.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I tried removing bind-utils and re-installing it. ...
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Network file responds very slowly to Cygwin but not Windows Explorer
In my workplace, my Windows 10 machine has a letter-mapped network drive, which responds quickly when accessed using Windows Explorer.
It responds extremely slowly, however, when it is accessed from ...
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Does cygserver improve Cygwin performance? If so, with what tasks?
I've read that cygserver can improve performance in some circumstances but I'm not really clear on how - or on how to know whether it's applicable to our use case.
Can anyone provide any insights?
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Damage control after erasing /etc in Cygwin?
I was doing housekeeping using the Windows adminstrator account, and I erased Cygwin's /etc folder tree.
I cannot reinstall Cygwin, as I was in the process of taking stock of what files I need to ...
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Interpolate timestamps and replace empty fields in CSV files
I have CSV files with the following elements:
timestamp, data1, data2, data3, data4, data5
2015-03-16 00:00:00, 3, 3, 4, 2, 5
2015-03-16 00:10:00, 4, 7, 8, 9, 3
2015-03-16 00:20:...
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Weird echo output in cygwin
I'm struggling with a really simple Cygwin script, but I can't get my head around it. Hope someone can give me a hand.
Here you are the script:
h=www.ibm.com
for ip in $(dig $h +short); do echo "...
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mv: A and B are the same file
I'm trying to move 5 .MOV files to a folder called MOV. I'm using find to list the files and mv to move the files:
$ mkdir MOV ; find . -type f -iname '*.MOV' -exec mv "{}" "MOV" \;...
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What are the installation files for cygwin?
For installing cygwin, it's website provides a small exe file which is to download the actual installation file from a mirror. But I don't have internet freedom on the destination computer with 64 bit ...
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Portable Linux emulator on Windows?
In a Windows computer where you don't have permission to install software, does Windows Linux subsystem, cygwin or any complete or partial Linux shell, utility or API emulator have portable versions? ...
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xhost not working in combination with aws vpn client
I have a laptop running Windows with a Cygwin X server. On this machine I have a virtual Linux box running under VMWare.
I set export DISPLAY=xserver:0 on the VM and do xhost +xclient on the cygwin ...
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Output capturing and make under Cygwin: "Unable to initialize device PRN" [closed]
A minimal example of the problem under Cygwin:
A directory with a Makefile:
all:
@echo "foo"
and a test.sh:
#!/usr/bin/bash
x=$(make)
print $x
Now bash test.sh gives: Unable to ...
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xterm*VT100.Translations only when mouse is over the window with focus in FVWM under CYGWIN
xterm*VT100.Translations only when mouse is over the window with focus
Is this a bug or a feature?
For me, it's a serious problem.
(click to focus)
ONLY CYGWIN
In particular, I'm talking about the ...
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echo "Hello World" > /dev/stdout prints nothing
Scenario:
$ echo "Hello World" > /dev/stderr
Hello World
$ echo "Hello World" > /dev/stdout
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 xxx 3.3.4(0.341/5/3) 2022-01-31 19:35 x86_64 Cygwin
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adding node.js directory to cygwin path breaks the ls command
adding node.js directory to cygwin path breaks the ls command:
Starting /bin/bash.exe
myidt@DESKTOP-IV5C6TI /cygdrive/d/tmp/node_ls_ko
$ touch toto
user@DESKTOP /cygdrive/d/tmp/node_ls_ko
$ ls
toto
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running base64 encoded bash script gives me error
I have a bash script; the script is to generate a random number and have the user guess it.
printf 'Guess the number (1-10) : '
read -r n
randint=$(( ( RANDOM % 10 ) + 1 ))
if [ $n = $randint ];
then
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Inputing accented letters in Qt applications on Cygwin
I am a native Portuguese speaker, and I am having problems when typing accented characters in any Qt application running on Cygwin.
Almost always, the result on the screen for any accented letter I ...
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The sync data between folder on window through cygwin
I have 2 Upload folders on server 192..168.2.3 192.168.2.4, both servers are running windows 2008r2. I want to sync the Upload folder of server 192.168.2.4 with the Upload folder of server 192.168.2.3,...
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Using sshpass in Cygwin, ssh stills prompts for password
According to this RedHat SSH password automation guide I'm following the Example 4: GPG one, and following the steps in that guide I create my pass_file using my own passphrase. Then, I got this:
gpg -...
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Implementing DB Security with Linux
I have installed cygwin64 and have been practising linux commands and Shell programming. I am creating a project where I want to restrict file permissions, authenticate user, and execute procedures ...
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Bash array and output
I have a folder from part of my script output to tmp. The rev cut is necessary to remove parts of it that are not needed. I want to output each line separately to to part of my script I am using an ...
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Change default SFTP directory in Cygwin
On a Windows server, I've installed OpenSSH via Cygwin to mainly connect via SFTP.
I would like to change the default directory for the SFTP server.
When I log via ssh to this server, my entry point ...
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How to install dig on Cygwin?
I cannot find dig command on my Cygwin, nor any package name that would directly point to it. If there is a package containing it, then which one to install?
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meld won't start on Cygwin: Complains about the dbus library
I'm trying to get meld to run on Cygwin 64 (just updated - September 2021), on Windows 10. Some relevant package versions:
meld: 3.18.0-1
python3: 3.8.6-1
python36: 3.6.13-2
python2: 2.7.18-4
I'm ...
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meld won't start on Cygwin: No module named 'meld'
I'm using Cygwin 64 on Windows 10; just updated. Some relevant package versions:
meld: 3.18.0-1
python3: 3.8.6-1
python2: 2.7.18-4
I'm also using MobaXTerm's X server (and it works - I can run ...
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Is there a way to check what newline characters your operating system uses?
I'm trying to run this open source bash script and it is not working because it is assuming I am running linux when it is parsing inputs. Actually, I'm running cygwin on a Windows machine. There is a ...
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missing argument to `-exec' with `find` in Cygwin
I'm new to Linux and trying to work with rsync.
I want to sync only file/folders that are created or modified in last 1 days or less. I'm using cygwin to sync windows files into Linux.
I tried below ...
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How to pipe filenames with spaces from a list file into "grep"?
First, I think the fact that I'm using cygwin is highly relevant here.
In theory, I already know how to do this:
cat file | xargs grep pattern
The problem is, some of the file paths in file have ...
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sed - Replace '^M,' when I cant write '^M'
I'm using cygwin to connect to a tiny VM with limited RAM (512M).
Also, I'm trying to import to a sqlite3 db from a 4GB csv file and I don't have any clue on import, except 2 lines (8.717.201 total)
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cygwin64 scons version issue
Cygwin currently provides two versions of scons package in its built-in package library: 2.3.4-1 and 2.4.0-1.
(https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/scons-src.html)
However, I am now trying to compile ...
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GNUstep gnustepbase build 64bit
I am trying to build a "libgnustep-base.a" file in 64bit so I can possibly compile Objective-c code in cygwin86_64 using gcc, in the "gnustep-base-1.26.0" folder there is a make ...
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Strange Cygwin terminal behaviour with trap and stty -echo
If I exit the script with Ctrl+C during the read ... command, the stty -echo mode is stuck!
(I'm using the Cygwin terminal on Windows 10.)
Unfortunately read -s won't solve my problem as it is "...
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Cygwin: problems installing Seismic Unix - error part way through install
I'm in need of some advice installing 'Seismic Unix' in Cygwin for windows 10. Hopefully someone who has done this before can help me.
The problem I have is when I run make install the install process ...
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ddrescue creates image with no content
Whenever i try the following command
ddrescue /cygdrive/f /cygdrive/e/stickydump.dd
i get the following output:
GNU ddrescue 1.25
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
ipos: 4294 MB, non-trimmed: ...
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Where is ocrmypdf executable after Cygwin installation?
I followed this page to install OCRmyPDF on Cygwin. I did so from a non-administrator account, so the process ended up creating ~/.local/ for the required files. The following commands, however, do ...
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Keep Cygwin ssh alive when computer sleeps
I use a windows laptop and ssh via Cygwin into an ubuntu desktop to do some work. However, if I leave my Cygwin session on and my laptop goes to sleep overnight, it gets disconnected with the ...
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Slowness in cygwin
I have cygwin and wsl installed on Windows 10.
Commands in cygwin run much slower than in wsl :
~$ uname; time date
CYGWIN_NT-10.0
Sat Nov 21 12:12:37 2020
real 0m0.825s
user 0m0.203s
sys ...
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How to upgrade lighttpd on Windows 10 using Cygwin/Mingw
There is this project I took from a client who my friend who owes Gym.
They have a POS security scan every month because they use the credit card machine.
if they don't pass the security scan, they ...
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develop of a bash backup.sh for rsync between linux and cygwin
i work on a debian 10 server with ispconfig 3 the backups files is in /var/backup/web*/*"Today"*. (exemple : /var/backup/web30/db_c1gifts_2020-07-25_00-07.sql.gz
i install cygwin on my ...
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Cygwin: get a path's stored capitalization
Cygwin is case-insensitive in the manner of Windows, e. g.:
$ touch ABC; rstr=$(openssl rand -base64 12); echo $rstr; echo $rstr > AbC; cat abc
dGRMOHqqoy0/nc96
dGRMOHqqoy0/nc96
$ ls | grep -i abc
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Sorting file based on "file" output into folders
I am having millions of files without extension and I want to sort them into various folders. I am able to identify the files by "file" but then I end with lot of different types which I can ...
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Why does "/dev/dsp" output with a 'Pulse-density modulation' (sort of)?
My understanding is that the input to /dev/dsp should be an 8-bit unsigned PCM signal/character stream.
yet
$ cat a.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int
main(){
uint32_t t;
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New install of cygwin requires manual login on each restart
I've recently had to reinstall Cygwin on to a new drive, and I tried to copy my .bash_profile over as well. But for some reason I can't use any of my old aliases in Cygwin unless I use "bash --login" ...
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Open documents from Windows with Cygwin programs directly
Is it possible to open a document by using the Windows 10's "open with" feature with a program that comes with Cygwin, e.g. Zathura?
This one with a Cygwin program.
First attempt: try to simply use ...
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