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* Michael Banks (2006-02-25 03:41 +0100)
> Suppose I have a folder on the desktop that contains a number of files. I would like to select only the .jpg files and then open them in a) a particular app if possible, or b) whatever app is associated with the .jpg extension.

Wrap your lines.
 
> I think the syntax would look like: 
> find "C:/path/to/desktop/images" -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 <some command to open these files>
> 
> I don't know what should be substituted for <some command to open these files>. Any ideas?

It seems you already know the name of the folder containing the
images, so it's rather trivial:

cygstart $USERPROFILE/Desktop/images/*.jpg

If the images are in sub folders you could use zsh or find:

cygstart $USERPROFILE/Desktop/images/**/*.jpg


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