Bash -c without exiting

[patrickinminneapolis]

I'd like to drop to the current directory like this,  

bash --login -i -c 'Drop to current directory'

without exiting cygwin. Thanks.

[Igor Peshansky]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, patrickinminneapolis wrote:

> I'd like to drop to the current directory like this,
>
> bash --login -i -c 'Drop to current directory'
>
> without exiting cygwin. Thanks.

Not Cygwin-specific.  Try

bash --login -i -c 'cd /tmp && exec bash'

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[patrickinminneapolis]

I modified Cygwin.bat to the following,
bash --login -i -c 'cd /cygdrive/c && exec bash'
and it still exits.

[Dave Korn]

On 26 September 2007 15:09, patrickinminneapolis wrote:

> I modified Cygwin.bat to the following,
> bash --login -i -c 'cd /cygdrive/c && exec bash'
> and it still exits.

  Use double quotes; this batch file is parsed by cmd.exe, which doesn't
recognize single quotes, but it does recognise the '&&' token, so it breaks
the line there and attempts to run

bash --login -i -c 'cd /cygdrive/c

followed by (if that exits with no error status)

exec bash'

which it doesn't understand!

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[Warren Young]

patrickinminneapolis wrote:
> I modified Cygwin.bat to the following,
> bash --login -i -c 'cd /cygdrive/c && exec bash'
> and it still exits.

I think you can get the effect you want by changing your home directory
in /etc/passwd to /cygdrive/c

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