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Subject: RE: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:32:15 +0200
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From: "JOHNER Jean 066030" <Jean DOT JOHNER AT cea DOT fr>
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I found the following solution:

Create a Windows shortcut with
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --rcfile ~/.foobarrc

where .foobarrc is a concatenation of /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile with th=
e following line at the end:
cd ~/foobar

The above solution is a work-around of a more clean solution which could be:
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login --rcfile ~/.foobarrc

where .foobarrc contains only the " cd ~/foobar" line.

Unfortunately, when launching bash with --login, the --rcfile option is no =
longer active.

Has somebody an idea on the way to launch a login bash which reads a specif=
ied .rc file?

Best regards

Jean Johner
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Objet=A0: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory

Hello,

Putting the following command line in a Windows shortcut opens a login bash=
 in the /home/User_name directory (~):

C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login

Now I would like to do the same in the /home/User_name/foobar directory.
I tried:

C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login -c "cd foobar"

with the result that the Mintty window vanishes.

I also tried to add

C:\cygwin\home\User_name\foobar

in the "Start in" box of the windows shortcut. With no effect.

Thank you for your help.

Jean JOHNER

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