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Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:08:12 -0500
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Sorry that question went out from the wrong email box. I must have
subscribed before on sjwright68u AT charter DOT net or I wouldn't have caught
Andy Koppe's reply on nabble:

> You've got the -cd in the wrong place. Everything after the -e is
> taken as the command to execute, i.e. you're passing the -cd to bash
> rather than *rxvt*. Bash doesn't recognise it and therefore exits
> immediately with an error.
>
> But even if you put the '-cd <path>' before the -e it won't work as
> you expect because the default /etc/profile contains a 'cd $HOME'
> command. Instead of using -cd, though, you could set HOME in your
> batch script:
>
> set HOME=C:\blu\newest
>
> Or you could change your home directory in /etc/passwd. 
It was also on nabble that I found the thread I mentioned briefly in the
mis-sent email that included my original question.
http://old.nabble.com/How-to-run-bash-in-rxvt-with-both-login-shell-and-in-a-specific-directory--td25369374.html

Mark J. Reed and Gary Johnson were replying to a member named David Karr
with suggestions and advice that included the following code that seems
to work in the Command Prompt
> C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -cd "/cygdrive/c/blu/newest" -e /usr/bin/bash 
> -c "STARTDIR=\"$PWD\" exec /bin/bash --login"
This after following Mark's suggestion that this conditional

    if [ -n "$STARTDIR" ]; then
         cd "$STARTDIR"
    fi

be added to one's .bashrc file. The next step will be testing the same
line, including in it the ostensibly cosmetic customization string from
my original rxvt.bat. Namely '-geometry 80x25  -font "Bitstream Vera
Sans Mono-14" '

If that works, then all I should need to add is the conventional @echo
off opener and I'm good to go.

Thanks to Andy for pointing me in the right direction. And if they're
still on the list, thanks also to Mark & Gary.

Cheers.

SJ Wright



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