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bash.exe support in RDM?

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We are trying to consolidate our users to RDM, however we have encountered some users that are leveraging the MobaXterm local terminal feature which appears to be using bash.exe port from cygwin. Is there a similar feature in RDM native? An alternative? I know I could probably deploy bash.exe and leverage and external command but is there a cleaner way?

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Hello,

By dash, do you mean a shell?

We have a session called SSH Shell in RDM and this session type will allow you to connect on switches as example and so on. Maybe you could give it a try?
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Best regards,

Jeff Dagenais

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Unfortunately, in this case not the ssh shell this is a local terminal. This terminal appears to be a port of the bash shell. It allows you to leverage all the 'native' linux commands. sed, awk, vim, run bash scripts shell !#/bin/bash, etc. It appears to me that mobaXterm somehow runs a small cygwin or Mingw environment inside the application as a terminal. There is not remote connection. you can cd to your local device drives. i.e. cd /drives/c/temp or even mapped network drive cd /drives/s/mydir.

It may not be possible but the users have learned that by using this feature they will prevent the removal of moba from their systems.

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if this helps: (https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/documentation.html)

1.5. Unix-like terminal
MobaXterm features a great terminal emulator based on the efficient PuTTY program (by Simon Tatham). This terminal allows you to run remote commands through SSH, telnet, rlogin or serial connections, but also to run Unix commands on your local Windows computer thanks to the use of dedicated plugins. There are many Unix commands which can be used inside the local terminal when using the "CygUtils" or other dedicated plugins: ssh, telnet, rlogin, rsh, rsync, wget, vim, corkscrew, httping, fdupes, iperf, mathomatic, xhost, xprop, xdpyinfo, xmodmap, xkill, Xorg...

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Hello Jeffrey,

Thank you for this information, I will provide it to our Engineering Department and see what can be done.

Best regards,

James Lafleur

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Hello Jeffrey,

Our Engineering Department just informed me that at this time RDM does not support local terminals.
That being said, they will see if it is possible to implement them in the application.
We will provide you an update once we have more information on that matter.

Best regards,

James Lafleur

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Thank you for the update.