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Re: Starting bash in directory
- From: Harald Kierer <Harald dot Kierer at astrum dot de>
- To: 'Maurício' <briqueabraque at yahoo dot com>,cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:34:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: Starting bash in directory
> Cygwin installation creates a shortcut that runs bash like this:
>
> bash -i --login
>
> However, I would like to start bash so that after starting
> it would
> go to a specific directory. For instance, I would like to run
> something
> like:
>
> bash -i --login "cd d:\users"
>
> so that bash would start and then execute "cd d:\users"
> before the user
> starts typing anything. This would be equivalent to the WinNT command:
>
> cmd /k "cd d:\users"
>
> Do you guys know if that's possible?
The bottom line of "/etc/profile" says "cd $HOME". Just change it to
what you want.
cd /cygdrive/d/users
Bye,
Harry
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