Cygwin stuff

Various Cygwin links

• Home – http://www.cygwin.com/ | http://cygwin.org/
  • FAQ – http://www.cygwin.com/faq/
  • Mirrors – http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html
  • Cygwin/X – http://x.cygwin.com/
• Cygwin info at RedHat – http://www.redhat.com/services/custom/cygwin/
• project pages at Freshmeat – http://freshmeat.net/projects/cygwin/
• Cygwin infor at Softpanorama – http://www.softpanorama.org/Unixification/cygwin.shtml
• Windows Unix compatibility – http://techdir.rutgers.edu/winunix.html
• at WikiPedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin

Portable Cygwin

• “Cygwin on portable storage devices” by Ali Devin Sezer (2005.02.05) – http://sites.google.com/site/devinsezer/Home/software/portable-cygwin
• “A Guide to Building a Portable Cygwin” (at Fuzzix blog; not clear when)- http://blogs.linux.ie/fuzzbucket/2008/02/23/cygwin/
• (2008): http://www.symbiosoft.net/cygwinportable | http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwinportable/files/ | http://portableapps.com/node/14482
• “Cygwin Portable – (some) Linux power on a USB for Windows” (Bits of Wizardry; 2010.01.29) – http://bitsofwizardry.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/cygwin-portable-some-linux-power-on-a-usb-for-windows/
• “How to make your own portable Cygwin on CD” by fergus bonhard (2003.07.19) – http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01117.html
• “A CD based on Cygwin for X Windows forwarding via ssh” – http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/

Tricks

Setting effective HOME to your Windows “My Documents” folder.

1. Start a Cygwin shell
2. You should be located in your default directory which inside Cygwin looks like /home/thisuser, but from the Windows standpoint could be something like c:\cygwin\home\thisuser.
3. Type ln -s /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/thisuser/My Documents/ ./docs
4. Edit .profile and .bashrc to put at their ends following lines:

   export HOME=./docs
   cd $HOME
     

5. that is it. Restart Cygwin. You should now be in the /home/thisuser/docs/ which is the same place as Windows’ c:\Documents and Settings\thisuser\My Documents/

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Related: MS Windows Registry transversal by Cygwin – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/registry-transversal-by-cygwin | Unix tricks – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/unix-tricks/