Taylor wrote:
Hmmm. I can't post a response to my own post.
Well, here's a new thread as a response to my previous thread.
Looking one last time, I found the answer:
to launch a cmd.exe window: cmd /c start cmd
to launch a bash.exe window: cmd /c /start bash
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Didn't see your qu
Mark J. Reed sent the following at Friday, June 26, 2009 10:14 AM
>> cygstart has an option to set the working directory.
>
>cygstart -d /path/to/directory cmd
>
>should do the trick.
Sorry I forgot to included in my previous email that cygstart can
load Windows shortcuts. This might be useful to
I wrote:
>>cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe
>>
>>or, if you have that in your $PATH, just
>>
>>cygstart `which cmd`
As it turns out, just
cygstart cmd
works on both my installations at work (one 1.5 and one 1.7, both on
Vista); on the PC at home (1.7 on XP) I had to specify the full
Mark J. Reed sent the following at Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:15 PM
>cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe
>
>or, if you have that in your $PATH, just
>
>cygstart `which cmd`
cygstart has an option to set the working directory.
$ cygstart --help
[snip]
Directory options
-d, --director
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Dave Korn:
>>> Problem: I want to be able to launch a CMD.EXE window starting in a
>>> particular
>>> directory from my cygwin bash window.
>> Just type "start" and press return.
> I get "bash: start: command not found." in 1.7.
Doh, I'm
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Dave Korn:
>> Problem: I want to be able to launch a CMD.EXE window starting in a
>> particular
>> directory from my cygwin bash window.
>
> Just type "start" and press return.
I get "bash: start: command not found." in 1.7.
This works, though:
cygstart /cygdri
Taylor wrote:
> Problem: I want to be able to launch a CMD.EXE window starting in a particular
> directory from my cygwin bash window.
Just type "start" and press return.
> 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 w
Hmmm. I can't post a response to my own post.
Well, here's a new thread as a response to my previous thread.
Looking one last time, I found the answer:
to launch a cmd.exe window: cmd /c start cmd
to launch a bash.exe window: cmd /c /start bash
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Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob
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 t
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