Cygwin Windows Is Searching For Mintty Missing
There are several different ways to do it:. Specify bash as a command-line argument to mintty, as mentioned by Salton. Set the Windows SHELL environment variable to /usr/bin/bash. Make sure you have an /etc/passwd (see mkpasswd(1)) in your Cygwin environment, and set the shell for your UID to /usr/bin/bash. Cygwin doesn't supply a chsh or usermod command, so you'll probably have to edit the file by hand if you want to use this method. From the mintty(1) manpage: INVOCATION If a program name is supplied on the command line, this is executed with any additional arguments given.
Otherwise, mintty looks for a shell to execute in the SHELL environment variable. If that is not set, it reads the user's default shell setting from /etc/passwd. As a last resort, it falls back to /bin/sh. If a single dash is specified instead of a program name, the shell is invoked as a login shell.
Cygwin Can't Find Mintty
Cygwin Windows 10
Windows Shell Limitations We’ve already shown you so you can use Windows and not have to miss out on that command-line goodness. If you use instead of Cygwin, Mintty works beautifully with that, too. You can install Mintty by grabbing it from the (make sure you get the proper version for your.