cygwin provides a Unix/Linux-like environment under Microsoft Windows OSes.
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How does the mouse + ncurses work over ssh?
I'm running cygwin on Windows 8 x64 using the mintty interface. I ssh into my Solaris 11.0 server and ran mc (GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.6). To my surprise, when I accidentally clicked on a portion of ...
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Calling parallel subroutines from serial in Fortran using Openmp [migrated]
I have a simulation code that I am attempting to parallelize using OpenMP. Is there special OpenMP syntax when calling from a serial 'main' part of the program, a subroutine in which I would like to ...
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Curl --insecure error in Cygwin (works in Linux)
curl is returning an error in cygwin. how do i eliminate this error?
curl --insecure -X POST -d '<run><log ...
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where is cygwin's wget
Did wget move to a package? I use to use setup.exe and search for wget to install it. I don't see it anymore.
The net package is already installed. Both attempts to run wget and locate wget turn up ...
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How to change user name on Cygwin
When I first installed and ran Cygwin,
my username and PC name appeared at the beginning of the prompt, like
Johm@John-PC ~
The problem is, there was a typo in the account name when I first ...
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Apache package in cygwin does not seem to work. Error logs are also empty
I installed cygwin in a Windows pc. All ok.
Then I tried to install apache package. I selected all relevant packages and installed them as well.
The problem: In /usr/sbin I can see apachectl2 and ...
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Installing Python 2.5 on Cygwin
I would like to install Python 2.5 on Cygwin. (EDIT: I need Python 2.5 in particular, and I am aware that Cygwin setup offers 2.7 and 3.2. I installed those using the GUI and they appear to be ...
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Why are tasklist results different when run locally vs over ssh
I have a windows box setup with cygwin and an ssh server that has been working fine, however today I came across a command I am trying to use that returns different results based on whether it is used ...
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File created in cygwin cannot be found
Setup: Cygwin on Windows 8 64bit. UAC enabled.
Scenario: I run cygwin without administrator privilege. I go to a directory and create a new file. Turns out I don't have write access to this ...
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Commands inside shell script can't be found [closed]
I am taking my first steps in shell scripting with CygWin thus, I would be grateful for understanding.
I am trying to execute my first script (called "script1"). When I type the command "sh script1" ...
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CygWin installation not completing
I am trying to install cygwin on my windows machine. It has passed nearly 5 hours.But installation not competed. Installation progress shows values exceed 100%. Is this the behavior of this or is this ...
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EMACS - SIGINT under Windows
Ctrl-c Ctrl-c is used in Emacs shells to kill the running process.
After an upgrade to Windows 7, this has stopped working for me. i.e. it doesn't kill the running process. Instead it just ...
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Cygwin: `find / -name libstdc++-6.dll` shows no results
In Windows Explorer, when I search for libstdc++-6.dll, it returns half a dozen results. I'm trying to do a similar filename search in Cygwin with find, but that shows no results.
find / -name ...
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How to open a Cygwin shell at a specific directory from Netbeans?
I've tried using QuickOpener with the command:
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e cd `cygpath "${currentFolder}"`
but it just opens a window saying: cd: No such file or directory.
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Is there any free modelling tool for POV-Ray under Win7 [closed]
Is there any free* modelling tool, preferrably running under Windows 7**, for modelling for the POV-Ray raytracer?
It is ok if the 3D, interactive view is wireframe only. The modelling should be ...
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Setting GNU Screen to send escape codes to outer terminal on TI
I’m using GNU Screen inside mintty. To get the scroll wheel to work, I had to switch the mintty scroll wheel mode with an escape code (^[[?7787h). This has the effect that the scroll wheel does not ...
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How do I configure ConEmu to run Cygwin Bash?
I created a new task
{Bash}
passed my home directory
/dir "C:\Users\TMB\"
and added bash as an application
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
When I open Bash, it is unable to use the basic ...
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Understanding the terminal and shell interaction
For a long while my understanding about a terminal in unix-like systems has been that it launches the shell process and provides a user interface to it by communicating with it over it's stdin, stdout ...
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Cygwin Connection closed by ::1
During the installation of Hadoop I am trying to setup CYGWIN and ssh. Installed and ssh also started successfully and setup authorization key as instructed HERE but When I try to connect to the ...
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OpenMP in FORTRAN does not run expected number of threads [migrated]
I am new to parallel programming, and am having trouble getting a simple parallel Fortran program to use multiple threads in OpenMP. The following program:
Program Hello
Use omp_lib
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CYGWIN SSHD service not starting
To setup Hadoop I am installing CYGWIN on my 32 bit Windows 7 machine. It has installed successfully without any error.
CYGWIN Setup version : 2.774
$ uname -r : 1.7.17(0.262/5/3)
SSHD installed ...
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Installed MySQL in Cygwin and it is asking for a password
I installed MySQL to Cygwin, now when I try to access it my typing mysql in the terminal I get the following error message:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
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How to resolve Win32 error 1069 when starting cron under cygwin?
The machine runs Windows 7 Home edition. I'm trying to use rsync to backup files to a linux box. The rsync command runs fine in cygwin. I resolved an earlier error by running the cygwin terminal as ...
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No access via cygwin to USB connected device (Samsung Galaxy tab II)
In Cygwin, I am used to being able to have access to a USB-connected device via a drive letter. For example, my Droid X2 appeared as E://, so I could do:
$ cd E:/<something>/
and get access ...
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Setting up sshd_config in cygwin for AES encrypted file transfer
I'm a bit newer to cygwin and sshd, and I want to configure sshd to allow encrypted SFTP file transferring.
From what I understand, I need to find some sort of sshd_config example (which for some ...
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cygwin AtlGr+pipe key not working as a pipe but as a split vertical bar
In cygwin with Windows 7, when I type AltGr+backtick key, I expect a | pipe sign to be typed, but instead I get a pipe that is split in the middle ¦, which won't act as a pipe sign in cygwin.
How can ...
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Getting up and running with boost [duplicate]
So I have cygwin installed and up and running. I can change directories, whole nine yards.
I have run the following test and it works.
NOTE:
C:\cygwin\
and
C:\cygwin\boost_1_53_0
also in my path ...
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Having Trouble Sending Arguments To Mintty/Cygwin
Simply put, I would like to have a shortcut on Windows which can open up a terminal window just like clicking the Cygwin shortcut normally does, but in a different location from the default.
The ...
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How to run apache server if it not already running
I wonder if it is possible to check whether or not apache2 is running. If it is not running I want to execute it using shellscript
Currently I have added a function which I named run_apache which ...
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Suppress (or quiet) the output of bash: “Hit any key to close this window…”
Typically when I invoke an GUI application in vim, I get a command prompt that awaits for my response:
shell returned 1
Hit any key to close this window...
How can I not make this prompt to show ...
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Is it possible to have cygwin ignore the Windows HOME environment variable?
As part of installing EGit, I had to set a HOME environment variable in Windows. This caused a problem whereby cygwin considers the HOME environment variable in Windows more important than the value ...
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Bash history lost [duplicate]
My bash history in cygwin is lost between two consecutive shells.
Here are the outputs of some commands that might help to understand the issue:
set -o | grep history
history on
$ grep -i ...
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How to persist bash history?
I don't know if this is expected, but my history is not saved across sessions. This is to say, if I close the window, then when I open it again, the history is empty. How can I persist it across ...
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wget connection reset by peer
I am using the following code to download a list of pdf files:
wget -i list.txt -A .pdf
Some pdf files are downloaded properly. However, some pdf files are not downloaded properly. When I check the ...
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How to use cygwin to copy an image from an SD memory card
Long story short, I'm working on a Windows 7 machine and I'd like to strip the image off an SD Memory Card (backing up the card from a Raspberry Pi). I'm trying to use cygwin, but not having much ...
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Why can I only suspend using Ctrl-Z in screen under Cygwin?
I'm using Cygwin with ConEmu in Windows 7. I can't suspend programs in bash using Ctrl-Z unless I'm using screen.
I've seen suggestions to use mintty, and that works, but I'm not sure why it makes a ...
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Using Autohotkey for Emacs
I am using emacs in Cygwin and have used Autohotkey to re-map the lefthand 'Alt' key and the lefthand 'Windows' key to be (left)Ctrl and (left)Alt respectively.
This means that an emacs sequence like ...
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error occur when i run awk command write in .sh file and run in cygwin terminal
i have cygwin terminal for run shell script(.sh ) file...it work good..but when i add awk command in shell script and then run Error occur
/usr/bin/gawk.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ...
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Where'd PHP for cygwin go? Still have a copy with PHP installed? Wanna share?
I used to have cygwin with PHP installed and working, but the hard drive on which was installed crashed catastrophically. Cygwin was just about the only thing that hadn't propagated to my backup yet, ...
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Am I failing to foresee an issue with a cygwin symlink to Windows's python.exe?
Should be an easy question. I have a windows version python 2.7 at C:/Python27/python.exe and I also have cygwin's installation at /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2.7.exe. This means that when I ...
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cygwin git default web browser
I just installed git using cygwin. I then tried using git help status but I received the error fatal: '/usr/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory. And indeed, there is no folder git-doc in ...
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Windows attrib command changes file timestamp
I have some batch file running that does the following on a directory tree with several thousand files:
change file attributes, turn OFF readonly
do some stuff, add new files.
change file ...
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Not able to connect to localhost by cygwin
While I am trying to connect to localhost with cygwin, I am getting following error.
Please help me to tackle this problem.
$ ssh localhost
The authenticity of host 'localhost (::1)' can't be ...
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How to exit Windows Python in Cygwin
I have installed Python with the Windows binaries, so I need to type python -i to start Python in Cygwin. And when I exit it I need to write exit(). It is just a minor issue, but I still would like to ...
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icarus verilog on windows7
I used to work with iverilog on win-xp. But ever since I moved to win7, it does not work. And I am not even using GTK, I just want a plain simulation to run. I have used different versions of iverilog ...
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cygwin git documentation
I just installed git using cygwin.
I then tried using git help status but I received the error fatal: '/usr/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory. And indeed, there is no folder git-doc in ...
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Launch startxwin in current terminal
I'm using Cygwin and am using Console2 as replacement to the default Cygwin terminal. I need to use X11 forwarding, and every time I run startxwin it launches it in a new terminal. I would instead ...
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start X window applications with Cygwin+Xming or CygwinX on Windows 7 64-bit?
I followed the instructions from previous posts on superuser to try and install cygwin including xorg-server as well as trying the alternative of bringing up X windows using Xming (including setting ...
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Building apps from source under Cygwin
I installed Cygwin on Windows XP without any additional packages and tried to build midnight commander from source.
Alas, the gcc compiler was missing, so I checked the option in the devel section in ...
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Bash variable in {$var} brackets reads as %7Bvar%7D?
I am trying to do a for loop, but Cygwin does not understand the {$var} syntax.
My command:
for f in 'svn ls repo_path'; path/{$f}trunk/path; done
Error svn: E170000: URL path/%7Bvar%7Dtrunk/path ...
