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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:41:30 -0400
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Subject: Re: How to run bash in rxvt with both login shell and in a specific  	directory?
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash --login -c "cd /usr/loca=
l/src; exec bash -i"

A good solution, but it won't work if you do anything in .bash_profile
that's not inherited by child shell processes (aliases, shell
functions, etc), since .bash_profile won't be executed by the bash -i.

Of course, it's not good practice to do such things in .bash_profile;
better to put them in .bashrc (and have .bash_profile source .bashrc
so they happen in login shells, too)... but something to watch out
for.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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