Questions tagged [cygwin]
cygwin provides a Unix/Linux-like environment under Microsoft Windows OSes.
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Cygwin find returns "missing argument to `-exec'"
I have backups script that removes backups older than x days.
On Linux machine this is working well:
find /backups/dummy-prod-db -name "*_D_dummy-prod-db*" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v {} \;...
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How to properly run GUI VNC clients on Cygwin
I want to use vinagre or remmina VNC clients but they fail to run:
$ vinagre
C:/cygwin64/bin/vinagre.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygvte-2.91-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No ...
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How to remove the "+" and "-" after a diff comparison
I compare 2 files using Cygwin (MobaXterm) diff.
Output files have -- a and ++ b lines at the first line. I want to delete only these lines. How could I do it?
Here's my script:
#! /bin/bash
sort -...
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Keboard grabbing VNC Viewer for Windows
I've used the cygwin X server XWin and gvncviewer to display a Linux desktop on a Windows machine, but the keyboard grabbing function offered by gvncviewer does not work in this configuration:
I'm ...
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Move and rename files based on their parent folders
I'm trying to write a Bash function that will find files in a given directory tree and move them to the current folder while renaming them based on their parent folder, but I'm still stuck on the ...
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cygwin /usr/bin/install cannot change permissions
When I run /usr/bin/install, I get permissions errors:
bifrost ~ 857# groups
None Local account and member of Administrators group tsysadm Administrators Users NETWORK Authenticated Users This ...
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Start metacity on Cygwin (Windows 11) in multiple window mode
How can I start cygwin X (I'm using metacity/gnome) in multiple windows mode, where each xterm or terminal or application starts in its own windows, rather than having a single application window and ...
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How to fix Cygwin installation, when unable to update setup?
I have Cygwin installed on my Windows 10 system. Every now and then I run Cygwin Setup to add packages as needed (mostly scripting interpreters). For some time now I face a problem when trying to ...
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Is there an effective way to obtain CPU values from cygwin?
How would you get the CPU usage of a windows machine from cygwin without causing the CPU to spike when running the command?
Some options I have tried:
parsing the entire output of top -n1 -b and ...
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Use putty on windows to connect to Cygwin on Windows10
Just got a shiny new laptop running Windows 10. Installed Putty and installed Cygwin and now I want to setup Putty to open "Local" windows with a cygwin bash like I have with my last three ...
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Ignoring timestamps, how to remove non-chat duplicates?
Ignoring timestamps, how may one remove non-chat duplicates in the following? The chats have 2 formats
beginning by a nickname surrounded by angle brackets and
starting with a nickname followed by &...
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Cygwin rsync cannot run outside of Cygwin terminal
I installed rsync 3.2.4 with cygwin in windows11 with the path C:\Cygwin\bin\rsync.exe. When I directly run rsync in windows terminal, I got the error code 12.
But this command runs normally when ...
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Is there something that would allow a Windows application source code to be recompiled to Linux? [closed]
Think WINE but recompilation. Think Cygwin but the other way around.
If not, what are the challenges getting in the way?
Edit: I'm looking for something that works like WINE but can get me better ...
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In Windows cmd, does grep use GetCommandLine(), and findstr use argv?
In Windows cmd, does grep use GetCommandLine(), and findstr use argv?
This is the grep i'm using
C:\>where grep
c:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe --version
grep (GNU grep) 3.7
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How to compile libassuan as shared library
I need to compile gpgme for windows (in CygWin). To compile it, I need shared version of libassuan library. But whathever I do it always compiles as static library. I even edited configure script, ...
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Windows: How to make cygwin bash.exe to take precedence over wsl in command line?
I have installed cygwin on Windows 11. Now, when I open the Windows command line, I want the bash.exe command to run the cygwin's bash command instead of bash linked with wsl (Windows subsystem for ...
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can't run commands in bash invoked from emacs shell on windows
I invoked "shell" which correctly runs cmd.exe and runs correctly.
However, when I run bash from within that shell, every command gives an error
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.739] (c)...
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With cygwin, how do you restart an ssh reverse tunnel without a forwarding issue "Warning: remote port forwarding failed" message occurring?
With cygwin, how do you restart an ssh reverse tunnel without a forwarding problem "Warning: remote port forwarding failed" message occurring?
I have this command ssh -R 50500:127.0.0.1:5900 ...
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How do I get Bitvise WinSSHD to provide me with a CMD console when I log in? SSHing to a Windows machine.(from a windows machine too)
How do I get Bitvise WinSSHD to provide me with a CMD console when I log in?
I set up Bitvise SSH server locally, and logged in locally with cygwin and with Bitvise SSH client. A bit odd that I can't ...
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rysnc not working with sshpass but works without it
I am trying to create a sync with strato hidrive and I cannot use keys at the moment, just so that it's not suggested in the responses. When I execute the script with sshpass in my local VM with ...
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bash: patch.exe: Permission denied; how to turn off security regarding 'patch' in program name in windows 10?
I stumbled upon a problem patching a .diff file using patch. I use bash under windows 10 and the result of of this operation is as follows:
$ patch < patch.diff
bash: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/patch: ...
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Copying from notepad++ also copies the name of the file at a random location
This one's weird:
(notepad++):
### Init mongo-express
docker run -d \
--network mongo-network \
--name mongo-express \
-p 8081:8081 \
-e ME_CONFIG_OPTIONS_EDITORTHEME="ambiance&...
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Installed Windows 10, file permissions causing all sorts of problems with cygwin
A little bit about my setup:
Was previously running Windows 7 with 0Patch, finally installed Windows 10 (clean install). All of my data is stored within an encrypted VHD (TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt) on a ...
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how to get /etc/machine-id on Cygwin?
seems Cygwin doesn't make a /etc/machine-id by default, how should i get a /etc/machine-id on Cygwin? i guess doing
php -r 'echo bin2hex(random_bytes(16));' > /etc/machine-id
is close enough? but ...
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Convert Files to Most Frequent Line Ending (Windows with Cygwin)
I have a bunch of files, many of which have mixed line endings (CRLF or LF). I want to write a script that iterates over a list of files, and for each file, converts the file to the line endings that ...
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How to get Cygwin bash to preserve Windows console default text colors
I had a working workflow where I would create a Windows console (using a Windows command script ("batch file")) that would (among other things such as setting environment variables) execute ...
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Cygwin sshd intermittently getting 'ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer' or not finding binaries
When I ssh to the windows box, on occasion programs on the path are not found, or I get ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer, typically when more than 10 simultaneous ...
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Default directory for zsh (cygwin) terminal is home, not working directory VSCode on Windows
I have setup custom profile for zsh via Cygwin in VSCode as below:
"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
"zsh": {
"path": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash....
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Error executing script conversion image to metadata block picture
My system is Windows and I installed Cygwin so I can run shell and bash files. I'm having problems running the second script posted here https://superuser.com/questions/169151 by @Biapy and would like ...
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Platform/version-independent sorting for gnu sort
I am trying to do an offline comparison of two lists generated on two different systems. They both have GNU coreutils so to aid the diff'ing, I sort both lists using sort before transferring them.
I'...
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Why is my installation of latest Java OpenJDK failing?
I am trying to build the latest Java OpenJDK on Windows 11 from source using Cygwin, from the Git repo https://github.com/openjdk/loom
Following the instructions in the README.md there, I see
If you ...
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How to find the port used for SCP?
I'm trying to copy a file from my local (Windows 10, Cygwin) machine to a remote (Raspberry Pi) machine using scp, I get a time out error:
$ scp main.bin root@123.12.21.123:
ssh: connect to host 123....
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Can the Windows %PROGRAMFILES(X86)% environment variable be accessed in Cygwin or Git Bash?
In Git Bash and Cygwin, I can easily access the Windows %PROGRAMFILES% environment variable:
$ echo $PROGRAMFILES
C:\Program Files
$ echo ${PROGRAMFILES}
C:\Program Files
However, due to the ...
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update package from older version to latest version in cygwin
I am new to the Cygwin environment. Now I need to update the package version from the older version to the newer version. I have installed the Cygwin and also installed the package from the Cygwin.
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Cygwin how do I install **all** packages
I want to install all packages from cygwin here as well as is installed Lynx in the snippet below.
How do I check them all at one or two clicks so that I do not need go one item by other ?
What ...
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Accessing notepad++ from cygwin bash
So when I am writing code, I use notepad++ and when I am done, I copy-paste it to plain old notepad because I use Cygwin and notepad is the only text editor that I know how to access from the shell. ...
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CygWin doesn't recognize Package Manager (?)
I have installed WinZip and 7Zip, but still the problem occurs
It says...
Now attempting installation...
Looking for a previous installation of SDKMAN...
Looking for unzip...
Not found.
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Prevent Cygwin from clearing terminal window
I start a new cmd.exe and run Cygwin like this:
C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat
Then I type exit. Cygwin now clears the whole terminal window. Is there a way to prevent this?
(I cannot use miniterm.exe because ...
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Where are Cygwin installer settings stored?
I want to install cygwin on a target computer.
I want to delete the Cygwin installer settings so my installer only uses default values.
I deleted C:\cygwin and the package folder but the installer ...
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CygWin: apt-file alternative?
I am installing yt-dlp from source. It requires pandoc, which I believe is available in a CygWin package.
On Ubuntu I would run:
apt-file search /pandoc
to identify which package to install.
What is ...
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What does the "cyg" prefix mean?
I've seen so many cyg prefixed things like cygstart, cygpath, cygwin etc., but what exactly does this prefix mean?
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Cygwin installer does not terminate if run as administrator
I want to install Cygwin quietly. The problem is, that the setup does not terminate. It stays open in the background and takes 100% CPU usage. This can be seen in the task manager.
I am calling the ...
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Can I add a newline into a command from bash's history?
I often stumble across this problem:
I type a command that has multiple lines for readability. This is an example:
echo "Hello. This is an example
of a very long command which is
divided into ...
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Specify installation directory in Cygwin installer
I want to automatically install Cygwin using a batch file.
I got the command like this until now:
setup-x86.exe --packages rsync -l "F:/v2.0/cygwin/packages" -L
The setup options can be ...
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Is there a way to search for Cygwin packages by command, and then download the package, and all its dependents?
I'm currently trying to use a program called Paml, in Cygwin but to initially configure it I need to use the "qmake" command in a Cygwin which as far as I can tell, seems to be part of the ...
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Cygwin ctrl-number not working (in cli emacs)
Cygwin ctrl-number is not working in cli emacs. I disabled the mintty options for keyboard shortcuts, so now ^- does work the same as ^u -1. Still, ctrl-number shortcuts do not work in emacs. ^4 ^x o ...
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Cygwin: git 2.33.0: gitk not showing diffs from index
I have been using Cygwin git for a long time (since about 2012). Much better than msysgit, as bash and all utilities are identical to what runs on linux, which is where I deploy. I have lots of ...
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Sendemail command not found in cygwin
So I am trying to use sendmail in cygwin because on the server I cannot use other options like mutt because they aren't supported. I have downloaded the sendmail package during the cygwin setup, but ...
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Cygwin: OpenSSH_8.8p1 appears broken, downgrade to OpenSSH_8.7p1 fixes it
I have been using Cygwin on Windows 10 for many years, and using ssh to access an AWS EC2 Amazon Linux instance for development. Recently, I bought a new Windows 10 PC, installed Cygwin in the usual ...
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Where are Cygwin Packages Installed?
I've recently installed cygwin64 on my Windows 10 machine in an attempt to build a project using cmake (Through CLion).
The project has lz4 as a dependency and when running the cygwin setup, there's a ...
