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Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:42:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Farley <pjfarley3 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Error using cygstart command with option arguments: "cygstart: bad argument"
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Hi all,

I tried to use cygstart to execute bash with the "-c"
option to execute a command and then terminate. 
Here's what I get:

$ cygstart bash -c echo Hi There
cygstart: bad argument -c: unknown option
$ cygstart bash -c "echo Hi There"
cygstart: bad argument -c: unknown option
$ cygstart bash "-c echo Hi There"
cygstart: bad argument -c echo Hi There: unknown
option

Is this my misunderstanding of the syntax of cygstart
or something else?

TIA for any info/RTFM/help you can provide.

Peter

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