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From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Executing bash commands from the bash command line
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 07:19:14 +0000
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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 (~).
>

I would suggest a google search with site:cygwin.com for bash here
The mailing list archives contain howto do this I am fairly certain and 
indeed I believe at one time it was going to be made an FAQ - but was unable 
to find it in the faq, and the mailinglist search (non-google) timed out on 
me :)

Gareth

>     Hamish
>
>
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