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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 12:25:02 -0700
From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn AT spocom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to run cygwin on boot
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On 2012-04-05, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 4/5/2012 9:41 AM, J.V. wrote:
> >I need to run a .bat file on startup that will launch a cygwin bash script.
> >
> >I can put the .bat file in the folder "startup" to connect some network
> >drives and then I want to launch a bash script.
> >
> >Can this be done?
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >J.V.
> >
> 
> yes.
> make a copy of cygwin.bat that is in the the cygwin root
> and use
> 
>   bash -c "your script"
> 
> instead of
> 
>   bash --login -i

You may want to keep the "--login" option, e.g.,

    bash --login -c "your script"

Otherwise you will not get important parts of the Cygwin environment
such as PATH.

Regards,
Gary


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