Problem: I want to be able to launch a CMD.EXE window starting in a particular directory from my cygwin bash window.
Details: I do a lot of work that has me switching between cygwin bash windows, CMD.EXE windows, and a variety of MSWindows apps. For example, I often launch a explorer window from the directory I'm working in: "explorer . &", or look at some data with excel: "excel mydata.csv &". I use my bash shell as my main point of control. I don't expect that I need to explain why given the audience. I also often need to do some work in a CMD window. At present, I need to open a CMD window, cd to where ever I need to do the work, and then launch the app. What I want to do is to issue a command like: "CMDWNDW.EXE . &" or some such and have a CMD window pop up on my desktop in a directory of my choosing. Ideas? Suggestions? Solutions? If this question has been answered like a couple of thousand times, just give me a link to the solution. PS I'd also like to do the same with a bash shell, meaning that I'd like to launch another bash window from my current window, e.g. something like, "bashwndw.exe . &" -- 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
