From: David Allsopp <David.Allsopp@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: How to start Cygwin from outside Cygwin and pass a command to execute?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D90189A625D5@Remus.metastack.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4df6f54b-5898-76f9-ebf6-1a2e40c65aa5@yahoo.co.uk>
Ben via cygwin wrote:
> Assume my CgyWin (on a windows 7) is currently NOT started.
>
> Assume I want to call from Windows my CgyWin and pass a command to
> execute.
>
> Afterwards CygWin should automatically be closed again.
>
> How can I achieve this?
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "command"
You will find that successfully navigating the Command Prompt, Cygwin's and "bash -c"'s escaping rules to be entertaining for advanced commands.
You can also achieve similar with mintty.exe -e (which will launch the terminal emulator, instead of using an existing console window, or opening a new one). Similar fun with escaping unusual commands.
See, for example, https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/43e4c778/appveyor_build.cmd#L93
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-02 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-02 8:31 Ben via cygwin
2018-02-02 9:17 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2018-02-02 16:11 ` Brian Inglis
2018-02-02 19:18 ` Achim Gratz
2018-02-04 21:05 ` Andrey Repin
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