Running a command in a specific directory

Tue Mar 22 22:40:30 GMT 2022

On 3/22/2022 6:35 PM, Piotr Gliźniewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>> I'm trying to run a command at a specific "Windows" path. Basically something similar to what chere 
> does for bash, but I want to execute ls in bash for a specific directory. I've tried variations of 
> what chere leaves in the registry:
>> C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -c "/bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe '%L'"
>> Adding simply `-c ls` didn't work.
>> To start with something simpler I've launched bash and tried just to guess what xhere want's, but I 
> don't really know what's happening. I couldn't find any help for xhere.
>> /cygdrive/c
> $ /bin/xhere '/bin/bash.exe -c ls' d:
> /bin/xhere: line 38: [: too many arguments
> /bin/xhere: line 41: [: too many arguments
> /bin/xhere: line 64: [: too many arguments
> Starting /bin/bash.exe -c ls
> -/bin/bash: ls: command not found
>> /cygdrive/c
> $ /bin/xhere "/bin/bash.exe -c ls" d:
> /bin/xhere: line 38: [: too many arguments
> /bin/xhere: line 41: [: too many arguments
> /bin/xhere: line 64: [: too many arguments
> Starting /bin/bash.exe -c ls
> -/bin/bash: ls: command not found
>> Any hints, how to properly pass `/bin/bash.exe -c ls` to xhere?

I'm not familiar with xhere; I would just do something like:
C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -c "cd place/I/want/to/be; ls"
Cheers - EM