How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?
Arun Biyani
abiyani@dickey-john.com
Fri Mar 6 15:30:00 GMT 2009
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
Behalf
>> Of Dave Korn
>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:48 PM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?
>>
>> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've written a cygwin/bash script and want to run it by a
customized
>> > hotkey laterly, it this possible?
>> >
>>
>> Sure. Create a windows shortcut to bash.exe, open the properties.
In
>> "Target", after C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe, add
>>
>> --login -i -c "<your command here in bash syntax>"
>>
>> and you can then assign a key-combination to the shortcut (as for any
>> other
>> windows shortcut) by clicking in "Shortcut key" and typing your
>> ctrl-shift-alt-whatever combination.
>>
>> The "your command here part" can be any valid shell commands, or
you
>> can
>> just pass in the path to a script you want run. (Remember to either
>> chmod +x
>> the script first, or to use the 'source' bash builtin to execute it).
>>
>> You'll probably want to change the "Start in" dir to your homedir
or
>> /tmp or
>> somewhere similar, depending on your needs.
>>
>> cheers,
>> DaveK
>>
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It appears that Windows XP shortcuts have a limitation. The shortcut
must be
to a target on the desktop (or to a target in a folder on desktop).
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