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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Michael Banks wrote:

> Hello,

Hi.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL>.  Thanks.

> 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.
>
> 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?

"cygstart" for b).  But you'd need to change your command line to

find "C:/path/to/desktop/images" -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | \
  xargs -r0 -n1 cygstart

If you want to do a) (i.e., open the files in a given application), most
of the time you can simply supply the filenames to the application, after
putting them in Windows form, i.e.,

find "C:/path/to/desktop/images" -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | \
  xargs -r0 cygpath -aw | xargs -r -d'\n' your_app

Depending on whether your_app is able to accept multiple files at once,
you may or may not want to add "-n1" to xargs...
HTH,
	Igor
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