Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Wed Aug 30 16:25:00 GMT 2006


On 8/30/2006 9:09 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Actually, one problem that console (from Console-2.00b120-Beta.zip) has
> is that one cannot directly give command line options to the shells that
> console loads.  So if one wants the shell to be
> 	c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -i
> or
> 	c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /f:on /e:on
> one MUST run the shell from a batch file.

It worked just fine for me with b125. I set my "bash" tab command to 
"c:\cygwin\bin\bash -li". You can even pass additional arguments to the 
tab's command with the -r switch:

    console -t bash -r "-c 'ssh somehost'"

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