RE: Launching CMD.EXE windows from cygwin bash

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Mark J. Reed sent the following at Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:15 PM
>cygstart /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/cmd.exe
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>or, if you have that in your $PATH, just
>
>cygstart `which cmd`

cygstart has an option to set the working directory.

$ cygstart --help

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Directory options
  -d, --directory=STRING     Set working directory

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