I was wondering if one can open shell of machines accessible by ssh. If I do M-x remote shell, I am taken to the shell on the current machine. In my case, I run emacs over windows XP and therefore it takes me to shell of windows
Let me know if ssh.el works for you?
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In Windows, in both the Windows Terminal and cygwin's own terminal, sometimes with things like sftp and interactive php, some characters are 'disappearing' -- see the screenshot. This doesn't occur in a WSL2 session on the same machine, nor if I ssh to a Linux machine on my network, but does if I ssh to another Windows machine and invoke e.g. php -a inside a cygwin shell. So I'm guessing it's a cygwin problem, but what? (TERM is set to xterm-256color)
This is how it looks (correctly) within WSL:
I just recently found out about using bash in windows. I had alot of fun installing linux programs onto my windows computer using bash and wondered how I would be able to run an automatic script so I dont have to export my display everytime I open bash.
I used to write scripts for cmd called batch scripting and I would be able to do everything cmd could do. Now that I have access to bash, I want to script a program that connects useful pieces of cmd with useful pieces of bash but I Can't find any results telling me how to call bash commands from cmd. Thank you - Zak Kaioken
I tried but get error: Process shell exited abnormally with code 255.
Mainly want this for SSH, and avoid Cygwin or plink/Putty.
I have this in config:
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "C:\\Windows\\System32\\bash.exe")
(setq explicit-bash.exe-args '("--noediting" "--login" "-i"))
(setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name)
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions 'comint-strip-ctrl-m)
Thank you
I use Bash for Windows with the latest Windows Creator's Update and Ubuntu 16.04 they have included. It runs quite well on Visual Studio Code and Cmder (a shell app like MobaXTerm etc). I also use ZSH instead of Bash (with oh-my-zsh and powerline9k) but i had some adjustments to do (and, it takes time to load, but i've read somewhere that Microsoft is working to fix this slow issue).
To be honest, it's a good way to replace Putty, but it has to grow a little. There's a lot of network tools that can't work on WSL for example.
I know the pain to prepare a Cygwin or use Putty, but you can take a look on MobaXterm, a really good ssh client that includes a package manager to allow you to do a lot of things from your Windows. I don't know if they use Cygwin like in the past ... But it's a ready-to-use solution with local bash shell.
To finish this and maybe help you, here is my startup line to run WSL / Bash for Windows in Cmder: bash -l -i -cur_console:p -c zsh. If you need any more information just ask :).
I am running a cygwin shell under windows 10 in which I start a "screen" session and under that the cygwin version of emacs (24). If I do M-xshell, it starts a cygwin (bash) shell just fine. So for most of my programming I'm happy. However, if within the cygwin shell I run "cmd" to get a "DOS prompt". I get this weird error message from emacs, "Waiting for process to die" (and some more text about hitting ctrl-g). I also get the same message, if I set the shell to be cmd by setting "explicit-shell-file-name" when I run shell. (That's actually what I tried first.)
Now, if hit C-g (perhaps twice?), the shell appears and cmd appears to be running, but I'm not certain of the state of things.
Has anyone else seen this error message? Googling for it returned nothing useful. Is there some incompatibility between the cygwin build of emacs and running cmd? Any hints on how to get around this problem?
Alternately, is there any way to send "builtin?" "DOS" commands (like MKLINK) under bash to a DOS box? How about running .cmd files? I really hate running a separate DOS box (not under emacs) and sometimes I need to do "DOS" things (and usually want the output captured in an emacs buffer).
I'm sorry if this is a simple question:
I want to swap from ubuntu to windows for my web dev (personal preference). I'm used to using the terminal in ubuntu and the commands there and I was wondering whether the command prompt in windows is the same? Do the commands do the same?
If not, is there a way to get a terminal for windows the same as ubuntu?
No the Command prompt is not same as the Linux shell you may find some commands resembling to those of the shell in Linux (terminal) however to get a more Linux shell like environment you can install cygwin or GOW (Gnu on Windows). It will give you a bash.
You can find Cygwin here . and
You can find GOW here .
Its not the same, as others have answered, but since the latest version of windows 10 there is a way of running linux bash terminal in Windows.
Have a look in Bash on Windows.
It is actually running Ubuntu inside your Windows.
Windows is based on DOS but Ubuntu is based on Linux. Each of those has its own commands, with some similar commands. I personally prefer Linux commands as they are easier to understand and more simple than DOS commands. You can't use Linux commands in DOS nor the reverse.