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thshdw / shuttle-for-windows

A simple SSH shortcut menu for Windows
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Create a shuttle like app for windows #1

Open thshdw opened 8 years ago

thshdw commented 8 years ago

@edgr-sanchez opended an issue on the shuttle for mac page requesting an app like shuttle for Windows. See his request here https://github.com/fitztrev/shuttle/issues/171

I'm closing that issue and moving the conversation here.

thshdw commented 8 years ago

@edgr-sanchez et al For those interested we can use this issue to discuss the alpha.

Goals for the alpha:

edgariscoding commented 8 years ago

Awesome! Let me know if/when I can help you test it.

thshdw commented 8 years ago

When you use cmder do you use powershell or cmd?

I ask because we either support both or we force one. I would prefer to not support both, and would lean towards powershell.

In cmder with powershell you can do cd ~/.ssh and you can't do that with cmd. For this reason alone when I use cmder I always use powershell

Do you have any preferences, or Input?

edgariscoding commented 8 years ago

Would it be possible to use bash.exe?

I actually use Cygwin with Cmder, but i think it's too much to ask for someone to download that as well and since the Windows 10 update this summer will add Ubuntu Bash to Windows, I think it'd be a great addition.

Otherwise, I'm ok with Powershell. I like it better than Cmd.

What do you think?

thshdw commented 8 years ago

Thanks. I'll start testing in using cmder with powershell.

Regarding bash, are your talking about Bash on Ubuntu on Windows I want to look at supporting that in a later release. Initially I want shuttle for Windows to work in Win 7, Win 8, and Win 10. Cmder will give us better windows support. In addition I don't have Windows 10 yet so I can't do any testing. :smile:

thshdw commented 8 years ago

I’ve downloaded the insider preview and tested bash on Ubuntu On Windows. Interactive terminals remain open, here are some examples:

bash -c “ssh myserver@myip.com” makes a connection to the ssh server as expected. When you type exit in the ssh session spawned in bash; bash exits bringing you back to windows.

bash -c “top” runs top and refreshes as expected

bash -c “ps aux | grep ssh” runs the command, prints the output then exits out of bash.

bash -c “apt-get install ThingToInstall” installs ThingToInstall then exits out of bash bringing you back to windows.

So interactive sessions remain open. Once a script has completed and is not waiting for some input then bash will close bringing you back to your windows cmd window.

If your want to script running a service inside your Ubuntu for Windows instance it seems that this wont work... see this Q&A 

    Faizal Luthfi
Does “Bash Ubuntu on Windows” have any parameter to start automatically Linux command on open? For example, I can create custom shortcut to run “Bash Ubuntu on Windows” with a parameter to start apache web server.

1 week ago
REPLY
    Rich Turner
As per the documentation (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/reference), you can call the following to start bash with the -c parameter, followed by a command you want bash to run, e.g.:

bash -c ls

HOWEVER, note that bash will close after completing the requested command – if no other bash console is running, Windows will terminate the bash process, closing Apache.
Because of this, we recommend opening bash and calling a script to start the services you want to run in the background instead.

Read more at https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/#ick1jBRTIWSid5GJ.99