On 12 January 2012 03:07, Jon Hughes wrote: > What I want to do is open a new cygwin window with a tail command, so > I have the parent process still running, and this runoff process in > another window. I've found cygstart, but I can't figure out the syntax > to do essentially this: > > cygstart sh "tail -f foo"
Just do: cygstart tail -f foo This works because Windows automatically creates a console window for programs that need one, i.e. you don't need sh in there. 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