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What about editing /etc/passwd? Pesonally, I use customized cygwin.bat. VÃclav Hasiman Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote: > I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under > > Cygwin, similar to the standard Cygwin Icon which runs a bash login > shell, > so that I can choose whether to get a window using bash or using zsh. > > It works kind of, but I can't get zsh executed as login shell. The BAT > file > invoking the bash login shell calls bash using > > bash --login -i > > but zsh has no equivalent to the --login option, so I just use > > zsh -i > > which makes the shell interactive, but not login. Zsh considers itself a > login > shell iff it is called under a name starting with a dash. > > Is there an elegant solution to this problem? Of course I could > > cp -- zsh -zsh > > and call -zsh, but I would have then to redo this everytime I update zsh > to a > newer version. Another possibility would be to execute a shell script > using > bash and in this script do an > > exec -a -zsh zsh -I > > But maybe someone knows a better way to do this? > > Ronald
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