Cygwin startup script

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codiac picture codiac · Mar 10, 2013 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

How can I run a script inside cygwin after it launches?

I want to automatically add some mounts and run other scripts inside cygwin whenever it starts. I see that in linux it is as simply as adding a shell file inside etc/init.d However, i tried adding this dir and chmod +x add a shell, chmod that shell file, but does not work.

Also if there is a way to run scripts when closing like umount, rmdir and others.

Answer

Steven Penny picture Steven Penny · Mar 11, 2013

What you are looking for is

~/.bash_profile

AKA

C:\cygwin\home\CPJ\.bash_profile

With a stock install this file is read on Cygwin startup. If you would like to add more files you can edit the .bash_profile file, for example

source foo.sh
source bar.sh
source baz.sh

Bash man page

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