On 2012-01-11, Jon Hughes wrote:
> What I want to do is open a new cygwin window with a tail command, so
> I have the parent process still running, and this runoff process in
> another window. I've found cygstart, but I can't figure out the syntax
> to do essentially this:
>
> cygstart sh "tail -f foo"
>
> Any help would be appreciated
mintty -e tail -f foo &
The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent
with those I write for other terminals.
HTH,
Gary
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