Re: Bash equivalent of cmd /k switch

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From: David Schwartz
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:10

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On Jun 2, 1:56 pm, Nate Eldredge <n...@vulcan.lan> wrote:

> You could write your command to a file, and use --rcfile to point to
> it.  But I'm having a hard time understanding why you want to do this;
> most of the things I can imagine to do with this have better ways of
> doing them.  What's your goal here?

My guess would be that he wants to set up the shell in a special way.
Maybe he wants to set environment variables, the prompt, the current
working directory, and so on. This way, he can drop the user into a
shell especially configured for some application.

DS

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