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Re: Mintty command line for old time rxvt users


On 19 August 2013 08:23, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> But I've got a question regarding the command line options. I used to have a
> bunch of shortcuts to start an rxvt to ssh to my remote servers but it took
> some trial and error to get it working so that it is (briefly) a login shell
> to get my sshconfig settings. So I've converted from this shortcut:
>
>   C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e ssh servername
>
> To this:
>
>   C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe bash --login -c "ssh servername"
>
> Which works, but is a little cumbersome. Am I doing this the best way, or am
> I missing something obvious?

Executing:

C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/ssh servername

works for me.

Chris

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