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From a cygwin command line, any way to run a normal file using the default Windows program for the file extension?
- From: cygwin dot t dot bnelson at xoxy dot net
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:18:32 -0500
- Subject: From a cygwin command line, any way to run a normal file using the default Windows program for the file extension?
Is there a way to run a non-exe file so that the default program for
the file's extension is used to open the file? If I browse to the
file in the Windows File Explorer I can double click the file and
Windows will automatically start the program for that given file type.
For instance, I can click on a .xls file and Windows will
automatically start Excel and have it open that file. Is there a way
to do something similar from a cygwin command line? That is, I'd like
to be able to do something like this:
cygwin> cd /tmp
cygwin> ls
a.xls
cygwin> runfile a.xls
and have it automatically look in the File Types listing of File
Explorer and start the associated program to open the file.
Thanks!
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