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Re: csh Shell


Hi,

Thank you very much for your help, now when i write echo $SHELL i can see
tcsh!

Cheers,
Alexis


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Alexis Cothenet wrote:
> >
> > > I have installed cygwin but i see that my defautl shell (doing echo
> > > $SHELL) is bash. I would prefer to have csh shell. Do you know how i could
> > > proceed ?
> >
> > Alexis,
> >
> > Cygwin doesn't have pure csh, but it does have tcsh, which should be
> > compatible.
> >
> > To make it your "default" shell, you need to do two things:
> > 1) Edit your /cygwin.bat and make it invoke "tcsh -l" instead of "bash
> >    --login -i".  That way, when you click on the Cygwin shortcut, you'll
> >    get tcsh[*].
> > 2) Edit your /etc/profile, and change the shell entry from /bin/bash to
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Whoops, sorry!  Correction: s/profile/passwd/
> 	Igor
>
> >    /bin/tcsh.
> >
> > This should do it.  HTH,
> > 	Igor
> > [*] There is a /bin/csh, but it's a Cygwin symlink, and you won't be able
> > to invoke it via Windows mechanisms.
>
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