cygwin provides a Unix/Linux-like environment under Microsoft Windows OSes.
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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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How to restrict cygwin's permissions in Windows 7
After an... ahem... incident involving an ill-judged rm -rf, it occurred to me that if you have administrator permissions on your Windows machine, working within a Cygwin terminal is the equivalent of ...
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Case-sensitive error in compiler's building using crosstool-ng under Cygwin
When I try to build gcc cross-compiler using crosstool-ng under Cygwin (running in Windows 7) I have the following message:
$ /opt/ng-crosstool/bin/ct-ng build
[INFO ] Performing some trivial sanity ...
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Multi-term in Emacs under Cygwin doesn't correctly identify terminal type?
I've installed Cygwin on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. After a rebaseall, Cygwin works nicely. However, I use multi-term in my default Emacs setup, and multi-term doesn't seem to like Cygwin at all.
It ...
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irssi cannot connect to IRC servers (cygwin)
I would like to be a more active user of IRSSI as I am not a big fan of either Pidgin, XChat or mIRC, having used all of them for over a year.
Unfortunately Irssi seems to be unable to connect to ...
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cygwin åäö in emacs
Hey
I been bugging with this problem for some hours now. And I couldn't find the answer on google so I try it here.
The problem is that when I run emacs in cygwin in -nw mode characters like åäö ...
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Escaping spaces in tab-completion in a Cygwin shell subprocess on GNU Emacs on Windows
I use GNU Emacs on Windows and Cygwin as my shell. If I create a Cygwin shell subprocess with M-x shell, I get a proper bash prompt. If I type this:
cd ~/My<tab>
it tab-completes to
cd ...
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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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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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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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Using Up Arrow in Cygwin within command
I just reinstalled Cygwin on my new PC, and I am having a problem with the up arrow. While at the regular Cygwin prompt, the up arrow works fine to scroll through the previous commands. However, on my ...
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zsh completion doesn't work under Cygwin for other drives
I'm on Win7 x64, Cygwin 1.7 and zsh (and using oh-my-zsh). Zsh newbie here.
I've reviewed zsh autocompletion not working on cygwin and tried the solution there but no luck.
My mount table:
C: on ...
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Starting xterm under Cygwin from the Start Menu
I'm running Cygwin under Windows 7. How can I create a start menu entry (or desktop shortcut) to start xterm?
Currently, I have to start the Cygwin/X server, and each time I want a new xterm, I have ...
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Windows cmd only uses Linux commands
I'm using Windows 7 and for some weeks I can't use Windows commands (e.g. taskkill) anymore but Linux commands (e.g. ls, kill, ps,...) instead. The problem seems to be that it is not using my PATH ...
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Running .bat file on cygwin CLI without the .bat extension
I have been looking for a way to run dos batch files from the cygwin command line without having the enter the extension.
Would that be possible?
Currently, I have to enter the extension otherwise ...
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rsync permissions from Windows (cygwin) to Linux server
I'm trying to sync files from development machine running Windows (using cygwin) to staging server running Linux.
I tried rsync -avz --no-p --no-g so synced directories/files would receive default ...
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Recovering data after errant copy command?
I meant to do this:
cp -rp -i /cygdrive/c/folder /cygdrive/e/anotherfolder/
But I accidentally hit enter after this:
cp -p -i /cygdrive/c/folder /cygdrive/e/anotherfolder/
And now the contents ...
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gcc: error: /EHsc: No such file or directory
I am trying to enable cygwin to compile packages downloaded through easy_install for python considering that I do not have a 'vcvarsall.bat' file however I keep running into this problem
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Cygwin runtime errors (“couldn't allocate cygwin heap”)
I am getting following exceptions when I start running some commands in Cygwin.
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (4136): *** couldn't allocate cygwin heap, Win32 error 0,
base 0x740000, top 0x755000, ...
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How do I resolve the error “Unable to get setup.ini from <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cygwin-ports/>”?
I have a running cygwin installation and I am following steps at http://cygwinports.org/.
I run in the cygwin console
$ wget http://cygwin.com/setup.exe -O /tmp/setup.exe
$ /tmp/setup.exe -K ...
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How do I set up sshd using Cygwin on Windows 7 for remote login
I'd like to set up an ssh server with Cygwin on my Windows 7 desktop so that I can remotely access my computer in a more civilized way than using VNC. I would like to use zsh as my default shell. I ...
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Windows Access is Denied to file created via ssh
I have a Windows server with cygwin installed and an sshd server running. I SSH in, and execute the following lines:
echo "Hello World!" > /cygdrive/c/Users/Administrator/Documents/helloworld.txt
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SSH (or other remote access) in Windows 7 outside session 0
I would like to connect to Windows 7 remotely from script (run from Linux) and be able to execute GUI commands (i.e. command that access the display device). What is the easiest way of achiving it (I ...
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New Xming Windows Doesn't Grab Focus
I do my day-to-day work on Windows 7 (no, that's not going to change) and often need to work with Linux running on Parallels. Switching between Windows and Linux desktops is a pain, so I've installed ...
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Fabric and cygwin don't work with windows UNC paths
I have some strange problems with fabric deployment to Windows Server 2008r2.
The thing I try to accomplish is to copy some files to a shared folder with a fabric script (this script does a lot of ...
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rsync cygwin also hangs without ssh
I've been using rsync installed via cygwin on two Windows 7 PCs to sync my music and picture collection, but eventually it always stops transferring after some time. I've googled and it seems that ...
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CopSSH backspace doesn't work in bash?
I just installed CopSSH Basic Edition v2.1.2.5 on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit box...I've only installed it because PuTTY doesn't have a working IPv6 version yet, and I want to connect to another IPv6 ...
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irssi “Terminal doesn't support cursor movement”
I'm trying to run irssi under cygwin and it gives me this error:
$ irssi
Terminal doesn't support cursor movement
Can't initialize screen handling, quitting.
You can still use the dummy mode with -d ...
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ProFTPd server fails to send directory listing
I host a FTP server with proftpd on Cygwin/Windows 7. Unfortunately it does not work, as people can log in, but not view the directory listing.
Cygwin users have guaranteed me this is a software issue ...
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Is it possible to get gedit's External Tools plugin working with cygwin on Windows?
I see that gedit has an External Tools plugin, but it is Unix only. Is there a way to get it working with cygwin on Windows? Or is there a windows alternative to External Tools?
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C++ Eclipse in Windows, when the run button is clicked nothing is showing in the console
I am in the middle of the process for installing Eclipse CDT in a Windows environment, and I got everything working, except when I press the "run" button nothing is showing up in the Eclipse console.
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scp exec request failed on channel 0
I am trying to scp files from one computer to another however I get a "exec request failed on channel 0". When I use ssh however, I can get to the machine with no problems. I am using the scp function ...
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Can't change rxvt terminal width
How do you change the width of a rxvt terminal running in Cygwin? I can change the number of lines by dragging, but can't figure out how to change the maximum width of any line.
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No more anti-aliased fonts in cygwin xterm?
I just recently updated my cygwin/xterm installation, and all of a sudden I don't have any more AA fonts in x-term. gVim works perfectly:
I have absolutely no idea what's changed or how to fix ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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screen: “You are not the owner of /tmp/uscreens/USERNAME” (cygwin)
I am in the process of backing up my cygwin directory, but one thing that does not work on my copy is screen utility. There are files in the aforementioned directory that seems to link to a tty. I ...
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Cygwin OpenSSH closes immediately after a connection
Trying to connect to cygwin-sshd using putty or cygwin ssh on localhost, here is all I get. I have it working fine on a different Win7x64 machine but this one is proving hellish. Config files for ...
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Home and End keys doesn't work in vim inside tmux
I can't use home and end keys in vim, when in Tmux. I've got this strange stuff:
H
F
H
sample text
my .tmux.conf:
set-option -g mode-mouse on
set-option -g mouse-select-pane on
set-option -g ...
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How to install git-cola in cygwin?
This might be a stupid question, however I can't get it working.
I know it has been ported. I've found both the sources and the binaries. I've downloaded all the files from here and tried cygwin ...
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installing error with a source code called Titan2d
I am installing a Titan2d softawre (from Buffalo University, Geophysical Mass Flow Group) in cygwin, I make a directory titan-3.0.0 (3.0.0 is the last version), under this directory I run $ sh ...
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how to uninstall packages (mpich2) from cygwin without using setup.exe
I have installed in cygwin (w7) a mpich2-1.2.1p1 package (configure, make, make install), now I would like to uninstall it, I have looked through the web, but I did not find any solution, can you ...
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how not to use xft fonts in urxvt?
I actually can't stand what xft does to fonts. Xterm default bitstream mono sans 10px is best ever font I've came around, almost same effect gives terminus font and monaco font also with 10px. When ...
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Any alternatives for dmenu on cygwin?
I'm just searching for little tool which would appear in Xserver->applications menu, in traybar. Something like dmenu would be nice. Just one line to launch command. It's really annoying to launch it ...
