Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:36:04 -0400 From: Dean Austin To: Doug Landauer Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"? Message-ID: <20020913203604.GC548@AGS5> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:01:51PM -0700, Doug Landauer wrote: > [This followup was posted to gmane.os.cygwin and a copy was sent to the > cited author.] > > Does cygwin include a command-line command that would open a > WindowsExplorer window pointing at the current directory? > > > Mac OS X has a command in Terminal called "open" that will decide which > application is the "right" one to use for just about any argument you > give it. When you say "open ." in Terminal, it will open a Finder > window looking at that directory (".", i.e., the current directory). So > I'm wondering whether cygwin on Windows has a similar function just to > that subset of what Mac OS X's "open" can do. > > If no one else has answered this, try "man cygstart". cygstart --open should give you what you're looking for. Regards, Dean -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/