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cygwin install

install

  • start installation https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
  • useful packages to install
    • Net/{openssh,rsync,curl,inetutils}
    • Editors/nano
    • indent
    • Web/wget
    • tree
    • jq
    • dos2unix
    • graphviz
    • util/ncdu
    • (optional): xinit,xlaunch

cygwin keyboard setup

tune ~/.inputrc as follow in order to allow CTRL+arrow to work in terminal mode

"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word

associate cygwin sh files

  • install cygextreg https://github.com/sop/cygextreg
    • download release file and unpack into c:\cygwin or c:\cygwin64 depending
  • from cygwin start cygextreg -r
  • double click on .sh file and associate with bash