Open Cygwin (Bash) Shell Here

24 June 2004

Installing this registry file allows you to right-click on a folder or drive and open a bash shell there. Works with UNC network paths (\\machinename\share), which I've seen similar registry hacks choke on.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\bash]
@="Open Bash Shell Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\bash\command]
@="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe --login -i -c 'cd \"`cygpath \"$*\"`\";bash' bash %L"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\bash]
@="Open Bash Shell Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\bash\command]
@="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe --login -i -c 'cd \"`cygpath \"$*\"`\";bash' bash %L"

6 Comment(s)

Comments

Very handy. Do you use cygwin often? I've been playing around with it on my work computer.

Posted by Jason.

I use it constantly at work. I don't understand how Windows programmers survive without less and grep. And I need to run X to use some third-party software.

Posted by Dave.

Great Thing,
can you give any more comments about what is happening so I can adapt it to run
my program MYPROGRAM and learn something additionally?

Posted by Peer Kruse.

If you want to change to the given directory and then launch a program, you can just replace the bash after the ; with the program.

If you want to pass the directory name to a program, change the cd to the program you want to run, and delete the ;bash

The %L in the context-menu command is replaced by Windows with the name of the clicked-on directory. This command runs a bash shell whose first argument is bash and the rest of whose arguments come from the file name (each space-delimited word in the directory name becomes a new command-line argument to bash). The bash shell is run with the -c argument, which runs the command given next. In the case, the command uses cygpath to translate the path from Windows format to cygwin (UNIX) format. The UNIX path is passed to cd using backquotes. Then, it spawns another bash shell, which starts in the clicked-on directory.

Did that make sense?

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Love it, wish i'd found this months ago!

Posted by beth.

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