SJ Wright: > I'm trying to write batch scripts of the kind that start a Cygwin session in > rxvt from the desktop, with the added feature that the session starts in a > folder other than $HOME. I want to do this for two folders I use often. > > I know urxvt has a -cd command, and thought rxvt in Cygwin did too. I tried > this code >> >> @echo off >> >> C: >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin >> >> start rxvt -display :0 -sl 2500 -sr -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -geometry 80x25 >> -font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14" -e /bin/bash --login -i -cd >> /cygdrive/c/blu/newest/
You've got the -cd in the wrong place. Everything after the -e is taken as the command to execute, i.e. you're passing the -cd to bash rather than rxvt. Bash doesn't recognise it and therefore exits immediately with an error. But even if you put the '-cd <path>' before the -e it won't work as you expect because the default /etc/profile contains a 'cd $HOME' command. Instead of using -cd, though, you could set HOME in your batch script: set HOME=C:\blu\newest Or you could change your home directory in /etc/passwd. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
