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Article #4017Re: Bash equivalent of cmd /k switch
From: Kenneth Brody
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:51
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:51
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Ben Finney wrote: > Ben <bgold12@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Windows, cmd.exe has the /k switch, which lets you execute a >> command given by a command-line argument, and then the shell remains >> open after finishing the execution of the command. > > Note that �cmd.exe� is a program that gives a windowed terminal > emulator, and it is that terminal emulator that remains after the > commands within it have ended. [...] > The �bash� program, on the other hand, has nothing to do with providing > a terminal emulator; it runs within a terminal provided by something > else. Incorrect. cmd.exe is a command shell, which runs in a console window supplied by Windows. It does not supply a "terminal emulator" any more than bash does. [...] -- Kenneth Brody
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