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Cygwin bash script file fails silently
I have a script file that uses rsync for backup, then compares the two directory trees using diff. diff seems to find all the differences correctly - it matches what WinMerge finds. But when there ...
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cygwin terminal adds carriage return to bash prompt [duplicate]
Running Windows 10. Just installed Cygwin, running it in Windows Terminal, tried to change the prompt format by editing PS1 variable and exporting in .bashrc and .bash_profile:
alias vim='nvim'
alias ...
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cygwin64's pgrep not working
I installed Cygwin64 and tried its pgrep.exe tool (with admin privilege) as follows:
PS D:\cygwin64\bin> D:\cygwin64\bin\pgrep.exe svchost.exe
PS D:\cygwin64\bin> D:\cygwin64\bin\pgrep.exe ...
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SSL connect error (schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed: SEC_E_ILLEGAL_MESSAGE
I try to install spotdl using cygwin
git clone https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader && cd spotify-downloader
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
pip install ...
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$PATH corruption on Cygwin on Windows 10
I am running cygwin on a Windows 10 computer. If I execute $PATH from the cygwin command window, I get the following error:
$ $PATH
-bash: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or ...
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How to access DNG file creation date from Windows Explorer
I would like to access the creation date of a DNG file, SomeImage.DNG. In Windows Explorer, under View > Details, the "Date" column lists the correct creation date, which I happen to know....
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Start cygwin bash.exe without inheriting windows home
I want to be able to run in the cygwin environment from CMD but when I run C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -l -i my home gets set to the windows home. As I understand bash.exe inherits the environment from ...
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Cygwin find returns "missing argument to `-exec'"
I have backups script that removes backups older than x days.
On Linux machine this is working well:
find /backups/dummy-prod-db -name "*_D_dummy-prod-db*" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v {} \;...
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Move and rename files based on their parent folders
I'm trying to write a Bash function that will find files in a given directory tree and move them to the current folder while renaming them based on their parent folder, but I'm still stuck on the ...
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Windows: How to make cygwin bash.exe to take precedence over wsl in command line?
I have installed cygwin on Windows 11. Now, when I open the Windows command line, I want the bash.exe command to run the cygwin's bash command instead of bash linked with wsl (Windows subsystem for ...
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can't run commands in bash invoked from emacs shell on windows
I invoked "shell" which correctly runs cmd.exe and runs correctly.
However, when I run bash from within that shell, every command gives an error
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.739] (c)...
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bash: patch.exe: Permission denied; how to turn off security regarding 'patch' in program name in windows 10?
I stumbled upon a problem patching a .diff file using patch. I use bash under windows 10 and the result of of this operation is as follows:
$ patch < patch.diff
bash: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/patch: ...
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Accessing notepad++ from cygwin bash
So when I am writing code, I use notepad++ and when I am done, I copy-paste it to plain old notepad because I use Cygwin and notepad is the only text editor that I know how to access from the shell. ...
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What does the "cyg" prefix mean?
I've seen so many cyg prefixed things like cygstart, cygpath, cygwin etc., but what exactly does this prefix mean?
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Can I add a newline into a command from bash's history?
I often stumble across this problem:
I type a command that has multiple lines for readability. This is an example:
echo "Hello. This is an example
of a very long command which is
divided into ...
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