Re: Starting bash in directory

[Maur�cio]

Harald Kierer wrote:

Cygwin installation creates a shortcut that runs bash like this:

bash -i --login

However, I would like to start bash so that after starting it would go to a specific directory. For instance, I would like to run something like:

bash -i --login "cd d:\users"

so that bash would start and then execute "cd d:\users" before the user starts typing anything. This would be equivalent to the WinNT command:

cmd /k "cd d:\users"

Do you guys know if that's possible?

The bottom line of "/etc/profile" says "cd $HOME". Just change it to
what you want.
cd /cygdrive/d/users


Bye,
 Harry

The problem is that I want to pass diferent directories each time. My final intention is to create a shell extension so that users could right click a directory and select "Open bash here". To do that, I need to give Windows a command like this:

bash_command %1

(and Windows will change %1 for a given directory).

Do you imagine what bash_command.bat could be so that it could execute bash -i --login and then have it to go to the given directory?

Maur�cio



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