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winrun
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Works around exes taking 10 seconds to start in the WSL if launched
# with a PWD that is in the linux filesystem.
old_pwd="$PWD"
# The <CommandParameters> seem to get concatenated together if you pass
# them to powershell, and I can't easily get proper escaping to work, so
# I'm just wrapping things in ' so it will at least you can have spaces.
cd /mnt/c && exec 'powershell.exe' '-Command' "Start-Process -WorkingDirectory$(printf " '%s'" "$(wslpath -w "$old_pwd")")$(printf " '%s'" "$@")"
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