X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45775965.5040400@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:59:33 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to run sh.exe without a console window References: <9c29f7d30612061547w5b10497cp67bbc1f0059a98a0 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <9c29f7d30612061547w5b10497cp67bbc1f0059a98a0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cygwin DOT t DOT bnelson AT xoxy DOT net wrote: > I want to be able to run sh.exe from a dos environment (like > Start->Run or the File Explorer) and not have it pop up a console > window. > > For example, if I were to type this in the Start->Run window: > > c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c "c:/windows/notepad.exe" > > I would see two windows--one for sh.exe and other for notepad. (I'm > just using notepad as an example). > > I want to be able to run sh.exe without the DOS console window showing > up. Is there a way to do that? Install the 'run' package. Oh, and use it. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/