Comments on: Open Cygwin Bash Shell Here

By: William

William — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:51:57 +0000

Jerry I have the same problem.

Ran:

$ chere -i -t mintty

Without a problem but nothing changes in explorer. Running Win7 x64

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:30:31 +0000

Hmm I tried this, installed the required package, ran the command (with cygwin in admin mode), it executed without error, however cygwin does not appear in my context menus
PS. Windows 8.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:18:02 +0000

Very helpful post, Mr Peter! Straight and to the point.

Windows 7 x64 (Russian) — works very well.

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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:04:16 +0000

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By: Zantier

Zantier — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:23:36 +0000

Thanks. And thanks Shantanu for

$> chere -i -t mintty

I didn’t know it was using mintty (or even what mintty is), but I really like how it handles resizing the window.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:39:59 +0000

Thank you, saved me a lot of frustration.

By: rana

rana — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:29:55 +0000

thanks, very much, it worked well

By: Zohair

Zohair — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:50:30 +0000

hmmm my syntax lines got mis-printed. http://unitstep.net/blog/2009/05/16/open-cygwin-bash-shell-here/comment-page-1/#comment-284146

The first $> line should read

$> ln -s (target_dir) (optional_name)

By: Zohair

Zohair — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:49:09 +0000

@puakv: You can use symbolic links.

$> ln -s

so for example if you want to link to /cygdrive/d/work/project001 do this

$> ln -s /cygdrive/d/work/project001

Some more info: http://www.nixtutor.com/freebsd/understanding-symbolic-links/ and of course there is always the man file

By: Shantanu Gadgil

Shantanu Gadgil — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:06:01 +0000

Hi,
Nice tip. I use the ‘mintty’ terminal rather than the default.

$> chere -i -t mintty

Obviously, the package “mintty” needs to be installed as well!