Peter Farley wrote: > I tried to use cygstart to execute bash with the "-c" > option to execute a command and then terminate. > Here's what I get: > > $ cygstart bash -c echo Hi There > cygstart: bad argument -c: unknown option
The problem that you are running into is that you need to tell cygstart that the -c and following arguments are meant for the child process, and are not arguments to cygstart itself. '--' is a standard way of doing this, which indicates to the program that all of the following arguments should not be interpreted as switches but just regular data. So "cygstart -- bash -c ..." ought to work. You will have to be careful with the quoting of the stuff after -c though. Cygstart is designed to use Windows-native methods to start a process. If you're using it to start a Cygwin process, and you want to have an argument with spaces in it (as is the case with any nontrivial -c) then you will have to be very careful with how you use quotes to ensure that the Cygwin->Windows->Cygwin conversion of the argv[] works correctly. It would be much simpler to do something like: rxvt -e bash -c "echo whatever". Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
