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On 1/11/12 7:07 PM, Jon Hughes wrote: > What I want to do is open a new cygwin window There's no such thing as a "cygwin window". Do you mean a mintty instance? > with a tail command, so > I have the parent process still running, and this runoff process in > another window. I've found cygstart, but I can't figure out the syntax > to do essentially this: > > cygstart sh "tail -f foo" > > Any help would be appreciated You want to run: mintty -e tail /your/file/here (Note that it's _not_ -e "tail /your/file/here". -e works a bit like cmd.exe's /c flag in that it interprets all following arguments as part of the command to run.)
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