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RE: Open Windows Explorer from Cygwin prompt
Vincent Rivière sent the following at Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:13 PM
>Christian Franke wrote:
>>> Cygstart is not needed in this case. Explorer can be launched directly.
>> This works from cmd.exe and from any cygwin shell:
>>
>> explorer .
>
>You are right, this is equivalent in this specific case. But cygstart
>can also open Cygwin-style directories, explorer can't:
>
>cygstart ~
>cygstart /etc
>cygstart dir1/dir2
The following bash script opens Windows Explorer in the directory of the
first argument or the CWD if there are no arguments.
$ cat /usr/local/bin/explore
#!/bin/bash
/bin/cygstart --explore "${1:-.}"
Conversion to an alias is left as an exercise for the reader.
- Barry
Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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