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

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

[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"

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?


Best Regards/Venlig Hilsen
Christoffer Aasted

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

[Andrey Repin]

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

[Christoffer Aasted]

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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