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Re: Help with shortcuts


Greetings, mrushton!

> Can some on give me a help with creating a shortcut to a shell script under Windows 7 ?  


> I am doing something like this in the windows shorcut : 

> C:\CygwinSoftware\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico --exec /cygdrive/x/INBOUND/CWSCRIPTS/mymenu.sh

> Well I found in the documentation that when you run a script this way, it is
> not an interactive shell and it does not process your .bashprofile and
> .bashrc and all the good stuff it normally does when it logs in.  I am
> missing aliases when it logs in this way. 

> How can I create a shortcut that would process my normal startup files and
> then run the script I what ? 

> I have been fiddling with mkshortcut but have not had much luck with it as of yet. 

That's because you're doing it wrong.
Include the call to "mymenu" from your profile script, once the rcfile is
read.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 28.02.2014, <21:58>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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