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On 3/4/2011 7:38 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote:
> Hello all. How would i go about creating a shortcut in Windows 7, that
> would run a cygwin-only command along with parameters if required?
> Rsync is the one i wish to run at the moment, but i also have a few
> more in mind like ssh etc.

To run bash (for example) there is a shortcut to c:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat.

The file contains:

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i

This should get you started ...  Eliot Moss

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