How to run bash in rxvt with both login shell and in a specific directory?

[Mark J. Reed]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>    C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash --login -c "cd /usr/local/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.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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