More Cygwin Goodies
I stumpled upon a couple of Cygwin .bashrc goodness whilst browsing Reddit today. As a result I stopped for a moment and remembered that I too have a few goodies that I use and love every day.
The default Cygwin terminal emulator is cmd.exe. Instead of replacing this with Putty as Athul suggests I’ve edited c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat to open a rxvt terminal with a nice font:
@echo off C: chdir C:\Cygwin\bin rxvt -bg black -fn "Lucida Console-12" -e bash --login -i
Finally a decent terminal emulator with copy and paste the way it’s supposed to be!
If you’re like me you hate the default /cygdrive/c setup. To save me from typing cd /cygdrive all the time. I always run this one-liner on fresh Cygwin installations:
for d in $(/bin/ls /cygdrive); do ln -s "/cygdrive/$d" "/$d"; done
It creates symlinks from /cygdrive/c to /c for all your drives. Saves me from a lot of typing, every day.