On 29 July 2010 08:49, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: > Putting the following command line in a Windows shortcut opens a login > bash in the /home/User_name directory (~): > > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login > > Now I would like to do the same in the /home/User_name/foobar directory.
I assume you don't want to change your home directory? You could do that by editing /etc/passwd. > I tried: > > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login -c "cd foobar" > > with the result that the Mintty window vanishes. That's because you've told bash to execute just the command "cd foobar", after which it will exit. Note besides, the -e isn't needed (but won't do any harm), and you can use --hold=always (or -ha for short) to keep the mintty window open after the shell exits. > I also tried to add > > C:\cygwin\home\User_name\foobar > > in the "Start in" box of the windows shortcut. With no effect. That was the right idea. The reason it didn't work is that /etc/profile changes back to your home directory, unless the variable CHERE_INVOKING (used by the 'chere' package) is set. Hence you could get it to work by changing the shortcut target to this: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/bash --login Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
