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RE: xterm-like terminal emulator
- To: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky at kurion dot com>,cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: xterm-like terminal emulator
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:17:31 -0500
At 12:06 PM 1/12/2001, you wrote:
> > c:
> > chdir \cygwin\bin
> > rxvt -e bash --login -i
>
>That doesn't work. A window briefly flashes up and disappears.
>I tried this
> C:
> chdir \cygwin\bin
> rxvt -ls ... (no -e command: just let rxvt create the bash)
>This produces a shell which is very screwed up. I set PS1="\w\$ "
>in my .bash_profile, but it outputs a literal "\w\$ " instead of
>substituting the current working directory for \w. Also I went
>to see if my alias were defined and alias is not a valid command.
>alias is a bash built-in command!!!
> \w$ alias
> alias: not found
>How a shell could get that badly messed up is a bit
>of a mystery to me. I also tried using run.exe as
>suggested by Jason but it had the same problem.
>- Dan
You assume too much. Unless you changed /bin/sh on your system to be a
copy/link of bash, /bin/sh != /bin/bash. You're getting /bin/sh with your
attempt. /bin/sh is ash by default which has none of the features you're
trying to use.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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