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

[Christoffer Aasted <chr.aasted@gmail.com>]

I think I found out!

I believe I misread the bash docs to say that even "-l" didn't source
the startup-files when it does!

Apologize.

Best Regards/Venlig Hilsen
Christoffer Aasted



On 2 June 2016 at 19:41, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 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" ?
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Thursday, June 2, 2016 20:39:51
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>

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