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Using CygWin in ConEmu

This is a simple question that might reveal my lack of understanding of the ConEmu console...

I recently installed ConEmu and CygWin to get nice command line interface setup to mimic my OS X and Ubuntu set ups.

I want to be able to ls and use linux style commands in ConEmu from startup of the application and I was of the opinion that the CygWin task in ConEmu would achieve this linkage.

What am I doing incorrectly that is preventing me from using CygWin commands in ConEmu such as ls? PowerShell, annoyingly, seems to link ls to dir perfectly well ...

Attached is my task in the ConEmu settings enter image description here

Solution

  • Adding a hotkey to CygWin Bash and then executing the hotkey created a new tab that I could use the CygWin console within.

    Previously I had thought all consoles would be combined into the initial tab with all commands available. However, this is not really viable as for CygWin, for instance, there is a completely different drive set up to emulate linux.