Cygwin - GNU/Linux Utilities on Windows

Installing

You can install Cygwin using scoop, which is a command-line installer for Windows.

irm get.scoop.sh | iex

If that doesn't work, try running this first:

> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

That setting (-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned) is needed to run a remote script the first time.

When scoop is installed, run:

scoop install cygwin

Now it's installed. Easy.

Add to Windows Terminal as a Profile

1. Open the JSON settings in Windows terminal.
2. Search for "profiles", and under that, "list"
3. Add Cygwin to the "list" of profiles:

       "profiles": 
    {
        "defaults": 
        {
            "bellStyle": "taskbar",
            "colorScheme": "Argonaut",
            "cursorShape": "filledBox",
            "font": 
            {
                "face": "RobotoMono Nerd Font Mono",
                "size": 11.0,
                "weight": "normal"
            }
        },
        "list": 
        [
            {
                "guid": "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}",
                "commandline": "%UserProfile%/scoop/apps/cygwin/current/root/Cygwin.bat",
                "icon": "%UserProfile%/scoop/apps/cygwin/current/root/Cygwin-Terminal.ico",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Cygwin"
            },
   

Config

While pulling dotfiles down from Github, it seemed to have converted everything to CR/LF, since Cygwin runs from Windows (even if pushed from Ubuntu Server).

I found that doing a straight scp from the Ubuntu Server worked fine.

Alternatively, run any dotfiles through a script to remove the CRs (\r).

#!/bin/bash
# tr '\r' ' ' > ~/.bashrc < .userver_bashrc   # This, for some reason, did not work.
cat .userver_bashrc | tr '\r' ' ' > ~/.bashrc
cat .userver_bash_aliases | tr '\r' ' ' > ~/.bash_aliases
cat .userver_bash_functions | tr '\r' ' ' > ~/.bash_functions