making urxvt start in a specific directory

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:46:00PM +0200, gibboris at gmail.com wrote:
> I attempted to make urxvt starts in a given directory.
> I can't.
> 
> With xterm, the following works well :
> xterm -e 'cd /tmp && /bin/bash'
> with urxvt it doesn't.

   urxvt -e /bin/sh -c 'cd /tmp && /bin/bash'

> Does someone informed about an alternative solution or workaround,

Yes, everybody who cared to read the documentation for the -e switch.

> I still can't figure why this behaviour happens.

Start learning to read now! You are not a lost case, reading manuals can be
learned. It's not a god given talent.

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