Cygwin

Cygwin: 3:05 : https://www.cygwin.com

Helpful Packages

Cygwin Must Have Packages

1. lynx, wget, curl, rsync
2. python, python3
3. bzip, tar
4. bash-completion
5. vim, vim-common
6. tmux
7. git
8. diffutils
9. make
10. gcc-c, gcc-g++, gcc-fortran
11. openssh

Select these packages during cygwin installation process. If you forget to install any of them when you install cygwin, you can use apg-cyg (See below). Or, restart cygwin installation and select the packages you want to install.

git-completion

cd /bin

curl https://github.com/git/git/raw/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -OL

Source it to turn it on.

source git-completion.bash

Add this line to ~/.bashrc

source /bin/git-completion.bash

Save and quit

source ~/.bashrc

apt-cyg to install packages

Download apt-cyg. It is used to install packages.

cd ~

lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg

OR

curl rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg -OL -k

After that, run this:

install apt-cyg /bin

How to use apt-cyg to install packages?

apt-cyg install nano

apt-cyg install zip

apt-cyg install unzip

File system

cd .. until you see /cygdrive

ls in /cygdrive should show you c and p drives (and any other additional drives available in the computer)

Adding aliases for directories

Open bashrc file.

vim ~/.bashrc

Add the following lines to ~/.bashrc

alias desktop="cd C:/Users/huyle/Desktop"

We can use open for file explorer. e.g. When you are in Desktop in cygwin, type open . to open it in file explorer.

alias open='cygstart'

If we need to make changes to bashrc file and reload them:

alias reload='source ~/.bash_profile'

export PATH="${HOME}/bin:${PATH}"

After making these changes, source the bashrc file using source ~/.bashrc

Tabs and Hotkeys

Cygwin does not have tabs. So, we have to use something else that supports tabs.

Use Console2 or any of your favorite terminal emulators.

Console2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cons…

These will be helpful while configuring the terminal emulator to use Cygwin.

For icon, use this: “C:\cygwin64\Cygwin-Terminal.ico”

For shell, use this: “C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe”

Integrate with Command Prompt

For 64 bit, add C:\Users\<username>\cygwin64\bin; to the end of the environment variables.