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Re: Opening new cygwin window with arguments
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
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