Open bash here (Windows Explorer)
It’s often handy to use Windows Explorer to find a directory, but then launch a shell to do real work. Here’s a script to add an “Open Cygwin Bash here” menu item to Explorer. This feature works when right-clicking on directory links, background, and drives, for dos cmd, cygwin bash, and powershell:
Download the following file (open_shell_here.reg). Open it with Notepad. Modify the paths such as “d:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe” and “C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe”. When the paths and command strings are as you like, save and exit. Run it with ‘Registry Editor’.
Verified on Windows 7 only. Thanks to André Burgaud and Joel Spadin
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Hey mate, thanks for sharing but this page is hard to read in Netscape it is is overlapping.
Hi,
Thanks for the sharing. Here is a modified version to start “console” http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ and “bash” http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/. You need to create a new tab definition in “Console” with bash as shell and then modify the registry file accordingly.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\consolebash]
@=”Open Console2 Bash Here”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\consolebash\command]
@=”c:\\tools\\console2\\console.exe -t bash -d \”%L\” -r \”-c \\\”export PS1=’\\w\\$ ‘; bash\\\”\”"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\consolebash]
@=”Open Console2 Bash Here”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\consolebash\command]
@=”c:\\tools\\console2\\console.exe -t bash -d \”%L\” -r \”-c \\\”export PS1=’\\w\\$ ‘; bash\\\”\”"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\consolebash]
@=”Open Console2 Bash Here”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\consolebash\command]
@=”c:\\tools\\console2\\console.exe -t bash -d \”%L\” -r \”-c \\\”export PS1=’\\w\\$ ‘; bash\\\”\”"