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Re: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash
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.
>
> ÂJust 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`
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