On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Steven Penny <svnp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > yes, that is good if you want to use a script - but a command does not work: > > cygstart bash -c 'echo hello; sleep 5' > Ah, OK. Here you go:
davec@SodiumWin ~ $ cygstart /usr/bin/bash '-c "echo hello; sleep 5"' I wish I could explain just why this quotation pattern works here. A long time ago I found that dicking around with the quotes could often get things working faster than trying to understand it in detail. -- 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
