native console apps from #!/bin/sh scripts

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 03/11/11 02:59, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> I can run native console apps from a console in a cygwin shell fine,
> however, for some reason they don't work correctly from a #!/bin/sh script.
>
> E.g., for activestate perl:
>
> TERM=dumb /c/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> run from zsh prompt works correctly with readline support.
>
> Now if I put that in a script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> TERM=dumb /c/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> then when I run the script the readline support is disabled for some reason.
>
> What are differences in environment in a script as opposed to the
> regular prompt that would cause this? And is there a workaround?
>
> Does it have something to do with STDIN redirection away from the console?
Have you tried using Cygwin's Perl instead of ActiveState?
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