Re: Windows shortcut "bash -c" the only way? Naturally it ignores profile and hence locale

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>]

Greetings, Christoffer Aasted!

> Hello Cygwin.

> I struggle in creating a Windows shortcut that launches a command and
> initializes the environment the way that the Cygwin64 Terminal
> initializes.

> C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/bash -l -c "set ssh -t cha@my.host
> screen -r -d weechat"

Why "set" ?

> I am aware that "bash -c" behaves much differently and does source
> $HOME shell customizations /etc/profile, .bash_profile, .profile -
> right?

> I thought "-l" login shell was the solution.

> I tried sourcing /etc/profile; .bash_profile and .profile but this
> doesn't make fix anything.
> C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /bin/bash -l -c "source /etc/profile; set
> ssh -t cha@my.host screen -r -d weechat"

> The issue is that LANG is not properly set and even if I set it
> manually before entering SSH with a "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" (where I know
> my host has the locales properly set).

> Why would we have to run "bash -c" on shortcuts ? Isn't sending a
> command to mintty.exe supported or is the culprit cygwin?

Normally, I just run shell scripts directly. (Well, almost.)
I don't understand your struggle. May be you should just remove "set" ?


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, June 2, 2016 20:39:51

Sorry for my terrible english...


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