--- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <Snipped> > 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. <Snipped>
Follow-up: Using "cygstart -- bash -c ..." did in fact solve the "bad argument" error and do exactly what I needed. Thanks again for the help. Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/
