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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: The Beauty of Cygstart
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, zzapper wrote:

> zzapper <david AT XXXX DOT XX DOT XX> wrote in news:Xns979065E51F443zzappergmailcom AT 80 DOT 91 DOT 229 DOT 5:

Even it if's your own, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.

> Whoops forget the vital & (launch in own process)
>
> function cs() {cygstart *$1* &}
> function csn() {cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t *.* | head -1)" &}
> function csl() { cygstart.exe *$(history -1 | sed "s/.* //g")* & }

The "&" isn't needed for cygstart, as it simply tells the shell to execute
the proper association and exits.  The only point at which backgrounding
would help is the short time it takes for the shell to figure out what the
association is (nearly instantaneous on my machine).

FWIW, another use for cygstart is to launch a Cygwin application in a new
window (e.g., I use "cygstart bash" quite a bit) and to launch some
Windows application without leaving the Cygwin exec stub process behind
(e.g., "cygstart setup" is very very useful).

HTH,
	Igor
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