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Re: Bash shell extension ?


Thanks for the tips Andrew .. 
The one thing I have yet to figure out is a way to prevent the long folder
names from being truncated (eg, Progra~1) .. Any ideas on this?
-Adam

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On 4/12/2002 at 9:34 AM Andrew DeFaria wrote:

>Sam Edge wrote:
>
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere]
>> @="&Bash Prompt Here"
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
>> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash\""
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere]
>> @="&Bash Prompt Here"
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere\command]
>> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash\""
>
>Personally I'm fond of "Bash this!" instead of "Bash Prompt Here" :-) !
>
>Also, the above does not handle the issue of the user's startup scripts. 
>Here's what I have:
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere]
>@="B&ash this!"
>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\BashHere\command]
>@="rxvt -e bash -c \"cd '%1';exec bash -rcfile ~/.bash_login\""
>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere]
>@="B&ash this!"
>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\BashHere\command]
>@="rxvt -e bash -c \"cd '%1';exec bash -rcfile ~/.bash_login\""
>
>Note if you do not wish to use rxvt then simply remove the "rxvt -e " 
>portion. This also makes the assumption that Cygwin's bin is in your 
>Windows System Environment variable PATH (which is should be, especially 
>if you use inetd) and that you've appropriately named your bash startup 
>stuff .bash
>
>
>
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