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Subject: RE: Bash -c without exiting
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:13:56 +0100
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On 26 September 2007 15:09, patrickinminneapolis wrote:

> I modified Cygwin.bat to the following,
> bash --login -i -c 'cd /cygdrive/c && exec bash'
> and it still exits.

  Use double quotes; this batch file is parsed by cmd.exe, which doesn't
recognize single quotes, but it does recognise the '&&' token, so it breaks
the line there and attempts to run

bash --login -i -c 'cd /cygdrive/c

followed by (if that exits with no error status)

exec bash'

which it doesn't understand!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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