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Re: Bash -c without exiting

by Igor Peshansky :: Rate this Message:

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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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