Top "Cygwin" questions

Cygwin is a collection of GNU and other Unix-like FOSS tools which run on MS Windows and provide functionality similar to a GNU/Linux distribution while (mostly) conforming to POSIX specifications.

"Permission Denied" using cygwin in Windows

Background: I am trying to write a [.bat] file so I can double click it and a bash script will …

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Installing Pip-3.2 on Cygwin

I have Python 3 installed on Cygwin. However, I am unable to install Python 3 packages via pip. Is there a way …

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Cygwin ls command not found

This is a question that I self-answered on my tech blog where I keep the tech-tips which I need to …

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Reading filenames into an array

I want to get a list of files and then read the results into an array where each array element …

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Using Windows Python from Cygwin

I've been using Cygwin on Windows recently. I want to use the Windows installation of Python, so during testing I'm …

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How do I use cygwin behind the corporate firewall

I'm in a Microsoft IE environment, but I want to use cygwin for a number of quick scripting tasks. How …

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Pdflatex for windows

Does anyone know how to convert .tex files to .pdf in windows? I tried cygwin but it said the command "…

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Good alternatives to Cygwin? - Cygwin doesn't support natively support Win32 apps

Update 1/9/2014: TL;DR version: Go to bottom of this post for a way to get Cygwin to be able to …

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Cygwin - run script silenty from "run command"

I have script lets say: C:\foo.bsh I want to be able to run this command via the windows …

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How set multiple env variables for a bash command

I am supposed to set the EC2_HOME and JAVA_HOME variables before running a command (ec2-describe-regions) How do …

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