Clone Cygwin packages.

I've come to depend on having a specific set of cygwin packages installed when working on systems.  The simple way to make sure it has what I expect is to install it.

#!/bin/bash curdatestamp=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` filename=clonesys.bat.$curdatestamp echo "setup.exe ^" > $filename echo "--download, ^" >> $filename echo "--site ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/ ^" >> $filename echo "--quiet-mode ^" >> $filename echo "--packages ^" >> $filename sed -e '1d' -e 's/ .*$//' -e 's/$/,^/' /etc/setup/installed.db >> $filename

I set this up to run regularly, which is why the filenames are timestamped.

Credit for inspiration to use /etc/setup/installed.db goes to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-09/msg00079.html

xmission is one of the closest sites, pick the appropriate one for you at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

Windows Explorer to current Bash prompt

There are times when it's just faster to do some things from Windows Explorer, than from Bash.  I know, this is sacrilegious to say, but it's usually when doing Windows specific things, so give me a pass here.

I've seen many ways to do this, but I'm partial to this way.  #!/bin/bash /bin/cygstart -x "`pwd`"

I used nano to save this file to /bin/x, chmod 700 and done.

It's small and simple.

Unix philosophy anyone?