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Re: native console apps from #!/bin/sh scripts


2011/3/11, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 03/11/11 02:59, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>> I can run native console apps from a console in a cygwin shell fine,
>> however, for some reason they don't work correctly from a #!/bin/sh
>> script.
>>
>> E.g., for activestate perl:
>> TERM=dumb /c/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
>> run from zsh prompt works correctly with readline support.
>> Now if I put that in a script:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> TERM=dumb /c/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
>>
>> then when I run the script the readline support is disabled for some
>> reason.
>>
>> What are differences in environment in a script as opposed to the
>> regular prompt that would cause this? And is there a workaround?
>>
>> Does it have something to do with STDIN redirection away from the console?
> Have you tried using Cygwin's Perl instead of ActiveState?

Not tested, but try explicitly enabling readline support with rlwrap:

#!/bin/sh
TERM=dumb
rlwrap /c/Perl/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell

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