Entering Cygwin command line (bash login) from Windows cmd.exe ?

[Roland Mainz]

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:38 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS) via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 6:18 AM Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>
> > wrote:
> > > Is there an official way to enter the Cygwin command line (e.g. bash
> > > login) from Windows cmd.exe, e.g. if someone ssh's into a Windows
> > > machine he/she ends/up in a cmd.exe and not bash...
> >
> > ping!
>
> You may run your favourite shell from the bin directory of your Cygwin installation:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe"
> "C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe"
>
> replace " C:\Program Files" with your target Cygwin installation directory root.

Thanks ;-)

Turns out my problem was simply that I forgot that just typing "bash"
only gives me an interactive shell, which sources only the interactive
shell configs (e.g. /etc/ksh.kshrc + ~/.kshrc for ksh93, and
/etc/bash.bashrc + ~/.bashrc for bash), but not the login configs
(e.g. /etc/profile + ~/.profile).

So the simple fix was just to type:
C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login

or

C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\ksh93.exe --login

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Bye,
Roland

P.S.: Which reminds me - is there a way to contribute a Cygwin ksh93 package ?
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