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From: "Hamish Fawns" <fawnha AT aie DOT act DOT edu DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <004101c23925$9d5f5900$9701320a AT flareon> <0208011650160J DOT 13014 AT gilgamesh>
Subject: Re: Executing bash commands from the bash command line
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:15:06 +1000
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>
> bash -c "cd /cygdrive/c/myfolder ; exec bash"
>


Dear George,
    I did as you suggested however when I called "exec bash" after changing
the directory a new instance of bash was spawned but when a new instance of
bash was spawned it started in my home directory (~).

    Hamish


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