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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 27 Jan 2010 20:03
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<p wrap="">My question is, is there a bash equivalent of the <code>cmd.exe
/k</code> switch that can be used to execute a command and then remain
open?<br>
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<p wrap="">No. Probably because bash isn't the right tool for <em>that</em>
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<p wrap="">Note that <code>CMD.EXE</code> opens a GUI text window,
executes commands in it, and closes it again; there is no direct
equivalent to this in Unix, as <code>bash</code> (and all other shell
processors) are not GUI, and do not open windows for themselves.<br>
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<p>Neither does <code>CMD</code>, which is in fact precisely like <code>bash</code>
in this regard in that it has no notion of a graphical user interface. 
You are incorrect.</p>
<p>What the <code>/k</code> option does is force <code>CMD</code> to
enter
interactive mode after it has finished processing whatever command was
on its command-line.  (With the <code>/c</code> option it does not
enter interactive mode.  With neither <code>/c</code> nor <code>/k</code>
the default is to enter interactive mode.)  The creation and
destruction of the Win32 console is not done by <code>CMD</code>.  It
just uses whatever console it inherits.  And it only even uses at all
it if it enters interactive mode.<br>
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<p>Yes, there's no <code>bash</code> equivalent to <code>/k</code>.
Interestingly, and not yet noted in this thread, the POSIX <code>sh</code>
<a href="http://opengroup.org./onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/sh.html">is
defined</a> as accepting both <code>-c</code> and <code>-i</code>
together, meaning that with a POSIX-conformant shell, one could,
according to the text of the standard at least, use <code>sh -i -c <i>command</i></code>
to achieve the same as <code>/k</code>.  The <code>bash</code>
documentation indicates these two to be mutually exclusive, however. 
This is a defect in the standard, in my view.<br>
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From: Sidney Lambe on 28 Jan 2010 00:05
On comp.unix.shell, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
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