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sentinel

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Location: OS X 10.5.5 /bin/bash 3.2.17

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starting bash in a directory

I wish to start bash in a directory at a per invocation basis. i.e, this has nothing to do with a user's home directory.

In my program, I should be able to give: "bash "/lib/examples" in one place and
bash "/lib/src" in another. A shell would start in that folder for me to work in.

This requirement actually comes from my .screenrc file where i can make multiple calls to screen to open differernt shells. However I need to open them in different folders.

Quote:

screen -t example -h 0 2 bash

Here I should be able to pass an arg to bash to start in a folder.

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