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 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020912192108.020699f8@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:35:48 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"? In-Reply-To: References: <6C36386A-C6BB-11D6-8AA0-003065E43436@got.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Igor, Doug, I wrote my own "open," but it was less than ideal (for one thing, I never figured out how to deal with file names that had spaces in them, though I didn't try all that hard). However, when this question came up a little while back (subtle enough for ya'?), someone mentioned "cygstart" (part of the cygutils package). That's what I'd recommend. It handles directories (they're sent to Windows Exlpoder) and URLs (sent to your default browser) and all other files with associations known on your system. Not to mention "much, much more" (like editing, printing, window control, etc.). Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 19:00 2002-09-12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Doug Landauer wrote: > > > 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" ... > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Doug L. > >You can write one yourself, it's trivial. You can use the following >command: > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/explorer.exe /e,`cygpath -w "$1"` > >Hope this helps. > Igor -- 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/