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I have installed rxvt using Cygwin.

The root directory is F:\cygwin64. So, after installing rxvt, rxvt.exe should be in F:\cygwin64\bin folder.

But I can't find it there. I have reinstalled it several times but no change. Why is this happening?

I'm using Windows 10 PC.

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So, after installing rxvt, rxvt.exe must be in "F:\cygwin64\bin" folder

The latest version of rxvt for cywin is urxvt.exe (where the u stands for Unicode):

rxvt-unicode: An improved version of rxvt with Unicode support (installed binaries and support files)

On my system (64 bit Cygwin):

urxvt.exe is installed as C:\cygwin\bin\urxvt.exe.

In a mintty terminal you can use which to locate programs:

DavidPostill@Hal /f/test
$ which urxvtc.exe
/usr/bin/urxvtc.exe

...

DavidPostill@Hal /f/test
$ ll /usr/bin/urxvt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 DavidPostill None 1191955 Jan  5 22:30 /usr/bin/urxvt.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 DavidPostill None   13331 Jan  5 22:30 /usr/bin/urxvtc.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 DavidPostill None      10 Jan  5 22:30 /usr/bin/urxvtc-X -> urxvtc.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 DavidPostill None 1197587 Jan  5 22:30 /usr/bin/urxvtd.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 DavidPostill None      10 Jan  5 22:30 /usr/bin/urxvtd-X -> urxvtd.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 DavidPostill None       9 Jan  5 22:30 /usr/bin/urxvt-X -> urxvt.exe

You can always find out what packages contain particular cygwin commands using Search Packages:

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Clicking on https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Frxvt-unicode%2Frxvt-unicode-9.21-1&grep=rxvt:

rxvt-unicode: An improved version of rxvt with Unicode support (installed binaries and support files)

2015-10-20 22:15           0 usr/
2015-10-20 22:15           0 usr/bin/
2015-10-20 22:15           0 usr/bin/urxvt-X -> urxvt.exe
2015-10-20 22:15     1256989 usr/bin/urxvt.exe
2015-10-20 22:15           0 usr/bin/urxvtc-X -> urxvtc.exe
2015-10-20 22:15       13341 usr/bin/urxvtc.exe
2015-10-20 22:15           0 usr/bin/urxvtd-X -> urxvtd.exe
2015-10-20 22:15     1262621 usr/bin/urxvtd.exe
2015-10-20 22:15           0 usr/lib/
2015-10-20 22:15           0 usr/lib/urxvt/
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