[Mingw-users] How to start MSYS with arguments for the first command executed

[nikola bozovic]

My plan is to edit msys.bat file that is used for

lunching msys and mingw terminal.

Line that lunches that terminal is:

start %WD%sh --login -i

that works very nice, it opens blank unix like terminal.

I am working on windows XP, and msys.bat is 

processed from built in MS-DOS command prompt, aka cmd.exe.

command sh also accepts a lot of arrguments, and one of them is

-c whic is suposed to be followed by command for execution.

that works olso, but when i call 

sh -c "notepad" 

it opens notepad, but it does not change terminal. if i try

sh --login -i -c "notepad"

situation is the same. I need msys to load first and then to execute command.

if i write these two in msys bat it does nothin, just open and close terminal window.

i olso try numerous of combination but no luck.

Thanx for reading and if you know anyway to help, thank you

[LRN]

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On 30.03.2012 17:43, nikola bozovic wrote:
> I am working on windows XP, and msys.bat is processed from built in
> MS-DOS command prompt, aka cmd.exe. command sh also accepts a lot
> of arrguments, and one of them is -c whic is suposed to be followed
> by command for execution. that works olso, but when i call sh -c
> "notepad" it opens notepad, but it does not change terminal. if i
> try sh --login -i -c "notepad" situation is the same. I need msys
> to load first and then to execute command. if i write these two in
> msys bat it does nothin, just open and close terminal window.

This is quoted from bash manual:
> -c string Read and execute commands from string after processing
> the options, then exit. Any remaining arguments are assigned to the
> positional parameters, starting with $0.
That is, `-c' does exactly what it meant to do.

Now, to execute something on msys startup you can place a script with
.sh extension into ~/.profile.d/ directory (create it if it doesn't
exist). Shell will run every script in that directory every time you
run a login shell (i.e. with --login).
If you want this to be executed only for one startup, add a `rm' call
into that script file:
> cat ~/.profile.d/run_once.sh
#!/bin/sh
start notepad.exe
rm ~/.profile.d/run_once.sh

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[Earnie Boyd]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:43 AM, nikola bozovic wrote:
> that works olso, but when i call
> sh -c "notepad"
> it opens notepad, but it does not change terminal. if i try
> sh --login -i -c "notepad"
> situation is the same. I need msys to load first and then to execute
> command.
> if i write these two in msys bat it does nothin, just open and close
> terminal window.
>

The proper way to do this is

$ start notepad

You can then add to your ~/.profile file

alias notepad='start nodepad'

After which

$ notepad foo.txt; #open a notepad session editing foo.txt.

--
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd

[nikola bozovic]

There was 2 replays saying some solutions:

1.replace "notepad" with "start notepad" - it aint work, when i write this line in msys.bat 

it only opens another terminal window with no mingw loaded,

and notepad is not executed.

2.to edit .profile.d direktory, is mb good solution if i realy dont find any other.

--THANK  YOU AGAIN

BUT, what i need actualy? 

i want to set the windows to open a terminal window with mingw (msys.bat) loaded - UNIX like terminal - colored$

when i click on any text file. My plan is to pass he arguments from windows to msys.bat, 

and then fom msys.bat to pass the command including folowing arguments (%1)

[nikola bozovic]

hi there,

thanx for your time and attencione,

i made one .sh script file in /~/.profile.d/

and it is not proccessed 

on msys initialization

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From: LRN <lrn...@gmail.com>
To: mingw...@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] How to start MSYS with arguments for the first command executed

[LRN]

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On 02.04.2012 14:18, nikola bozovic wrote:

> On Friday, March 30, 2012 4:48 PM LRN wrote:
>> On 30.03.2012 17:43, nikola bozovic wrote:
>>> I am working on windows XP, and msys.bat is processed from
>>> built in MS-DOS command prompt, aka cmd.exe. command sh also
>>> accepts a lot of arrguments, and one of them is -c whic is
>>> suposed to be followed by command for execution. that works
>>> olso, but when i call sh -c "notepad" it opens notepad, but it
>>> does not change terminal. if i try sh --login -i -c "notepad"
>>> situation is the same. I need msys to load first and then to
>>> execute command. if i write these two in msys bat it does
>>> nothin, just open and close terminal window.
>> This is quoted from bash manual:
>>> -c string Read and execute commands from string after
>>> processing the options, then exit. Any remaining arguments are
>>> assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0.
>> That is, `-c' does exactly what it meant to do.
>>
>> Now, to execute something on msys startup you can place a script
>> with .sh extension into ~/.profile.d/ directory (create it if it
>> doesn't exist). Shell will run every script in that directory
>> every time you run a login shell (i.e. with --login). If you want
>> this to be executed only for one startup, add a `rm' call into
>> that script file:
>>> cat ~/.profile.d/run_once.sh
>> #!/bin/sh start notepad.exe rm ~/.profile.d/run_once.sh

> hi there, thanx for your time and attencione, i made one .sh script
> file in /~/.profile.d/ and it is not proccessed on msys
> initialization

Ah, sorry, my bad. I forgot that this is not a standard feature.
Create a ~/.profile file (if it doesn't exist) and put this into it:

for i in ~/.profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -f $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done

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[Earnie Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:12 AM, nikola bozovic wrote:
>
> There was 2 replays saying some solutions:
> 1.replace "notepad" with "start notepad" - it aint work, when i write this
> line in msys.bat

Do not modify msys.bat, you will be upset when you update MSYS. The
``start notepad'' is for the command line. The ``alias nodepad='start
notepad''' is to be put into your ~/.profile file. The start command
is itself a UNIX script file ``cat /bin/start'' so executing it from
within msys.bat isn't going to work.

> it only opens another terminal window with no mingw loaded,
> and notepad is not executed.
> 2.to edit .profile.d direktory, is mb good solution if i realy dont find any
> other.
>
> --THANK  YOU AGAIN
>
> BUT, what i need actualy?
> i want to set the windows to open a terminal window with mingw (msys.bat)
> loaded - UNIX like terminal - colored$
> when i click on any text file. My plan is to pass he arguments from windows
> to msys.bat,
> and then fom msys.bat to pass the command including folowing arguments (%1)

I don't get how notepad comes into play here. What do you want the
modified batch file to do? Again, you do not want to modify msys.bat
since you will be upset when you update MSYS. A copy of it maybe but
then you'll need to compare any future releases for modifications.

--
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd

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[Earnie Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:42 AM, LRN wrote:
>
> Ah, sorry, my bad. I forgot that this is not a standard feature.
> Create a ~/.profile file (if it doesn't exist) and put this into it:
>
> for i in ~/.profile.d/*.sh ; do
>  if [ -f $i ]; then
>    . $i
>  fi
> done

Or perhaps use /etc/profile.d which is processed by /etc/profile during --login.

--
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd

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[LRN]

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On 02.04.2012 17:12, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:42 AM, LRN wrote:
>>
>> Ah, sorry, my bad. I forgot that this is not a standard feature.
>> Create a ~/.profile file (if it doesn't exist) and put this into
>> it:
>>
>> for i in ~/.profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -f $i ]; then . $i fi done
>
> Or perhaps use /etc/profile.d which is processed by /etc/profile
> during --login.
>

/etc/profile is a system-wide configuration, while ~/.profile is a
user-level one. For example, it won't be read if the shell was started
in non-login mode, so using it for that sort of things (though i'm
still struggling to understand what exactly the OP wanted) is safer
than /etc/profile

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