Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <8C6D4989662C304087C58904BAB721A54B7331@hermes.astrum.de> From: Harald Kierer To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=27Maur=EDcio=27?= , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Starting bash in directory Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:34:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/