When I installed Cygwin, it created a duplicate of this folder on my Desktop and wanted to use that as the HOME folder. I changed it be the home subdirectory of my Cygwin install. I set up the db_home line in /etc/nsswitch.conf as you suggested, and the other configuration files are mentioned are working properly. I just installed the new Linux subsystem in Windows 10. It's really nice to have access to the Ubuntu repositories, but I absolutely HATE the default cmd program. Cygwin's MinTTY is really nice and. Feb 23, 2003 - Cygwin environment provides Windows users with Unix-like command-line tools. To access these tools, Cygwin Bash Shell is recommended (available in Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin). Foo -a 1 foo: Command not found.
Is a fantastic piece of software that smoothes some of the edges of the Windows command line experience. You should use it and here’s why: • MinTTY comes with Cygwin Installing MinTTY is trivial: just select the mintty package in Cygwin’s setup.exe and point your Cygwin shortcut to C: cygwin bin mintty.exe. The trailing hyphen is important. • Sane copy and paste By default, MinTTY copies on select and pastes on right-click, just like Linux. However, you can make it behave like a typical Windows application and show a context menu upon right-click.