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Since my current job forces me to work on Windows most of the time, I desperately tried to get any shell/terminal on Windows shell to the same level as all other *nix shells in the 20th century. It turned out to be an endeavour but with a decently working bash in the end. After trying MinGW, Cygwin, MKS ToolKit, and supplementary terminal emulators like Console2 and ConEmu, I finally stuck with Cygwin. The best terminal emulator (the application that runs the shell) for me is the mintty.exe that is shipped with Cygwin. It supports copy paste (even though through weird short cuts), window resizing (yay!), terminal colors, and different terminal fonts - you see I became pretty frugal over time. ...

I have to add this here also, as all other information I found on the internet was misleading: Just open the user’s environment variables dialog and add a user environment variable HOME pointing to your home directory - e.g. C:\Users\username. That’s it, iss

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As I need to call Matlab scripts from the command, e.g., for running Matlab scripts in a batch, every once in a while, I post a little reminder for my self here. Keep in mind that the called Matlab command needs to have an exit at the end, otherwise Matlab will keep running, waiting for input. In this example I am calling myscript and forward bash options $1 and $2 to it. Furthermore I am suppressing the GUI (-nodisplay), the Java Virtual Machine (-nojvm), the splash screen (-nosplash) and the Matlab Desktop (-nodesktop). Anyhow, the latte two options might be implied by suppressing the GUI already - but I’m not taking chances ;). ...

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