Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

Mark J. Reed markjreed@gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 05:32:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Dave Korn:
>> Problem: I want to be able to launch a CMD.EXE window starting in a particular
>> directory from my cygwin bash window.
>
>  Just type "start" and press return.
I get "bash: start: command not found." in 1.7.

This works, though:

cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe

or, if you have that in your $PATH, just

cygstart `which cmd`

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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