Re: [Mingw-msys] Invoking Bash

[Manu B <ma...@us...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:


> Manu B wrote:
> > I'm desperately trying to find an equivalent of 
> > "%COMSPEC% /K cmdline" with Bash.
> > With command.com/cmd.exe, the /K switch
> > executes 'cmdline' and remains.
> > I've RTFM and just found the '-c' switch.
> > eg: 
> > $ sh --login -i -c 'rm -f toto'
> > 
> > With '-c', Bash executes 'rm -f toto' and terminates.
> > IOW, '-c' equals to the '/C' switch of command.com/
> > cmd.exe.
> > 
> > How could I make Bash to execute a command line
> > and stay open.
> > 
> 
> Not that I'm aware of.  What are you trying to accomplish?  Why do you 
> need the subprocess shell to remain open?  Could you put the commands in 
> the startup ~/.profile file?

Well, I'd prefer to keep my intentions secret until I succeed... never mind.
Do you know "DOS Prompt Here" from IE 4 power toys? It's an .inf script
which add the following key into the registry:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\DosHere\command]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\command.com /k cd \"%1\""

Then, when you right-click on a folder or drive in Windows Explorer,
and click the "DOS Prompt Here" sub-menu, "command /k cd \"%1\""
opens a brand new DOS box and 'cd' to the directory pointed by %1.

Nice isn't it?
Now, when you are used to that "DOS Here" menu, it's natural to think
to a "MSYS here" menu in Windows Explorer :)
Using MSYS as a build environment is great, it would be wonderful to
use the MSYS Bash shell instead of our (stupid) DOS boxes. d:]

Manu.