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Re: zsh as login shell


On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote:

Greetings, Ronald,

I would like to have on my Windoze desktop an Icon for zsh running under

Cygwin, similar to the standard Cygwin Icon which runs a bash login
shell, so that I can choose whether to get a window using bash or using
zsh.

Use mkzsh to do this. For help, type 'mkzsh --help'


eg:

mkzsh --desktop

It works kind of, but I can't get zsh executed as login shell. The BAT
file invoking the bash login shell calls bash using

bash --login -i

See the '-l' option of zsh in the manpages.


eg:

zsh -l

but zsh has no equivalent to the --login option, so I just use

zsh -i

which makes the shell interactive, but not login. Zsh considers itself a
login
shell iff it is called under a name starting with a dash.

Is there an elegant solution to this problem? Of course I could

cp -- zsh -zsh

and call -zsh, but I would have then to redo this everytime I update zsh
to a
newer version. Another possibility would be to execute a shell script
using
bash and in this script do an

exec -a -zsh zsh -I

But maybe someone knows a better way to do this?

Ronald
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