X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:51:23 -0600 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Rex Godby wrote: > Two tiny Cygwin shell scripts may be of use. Each script has a single > active line, which I include here (to try these from the command line, > of course replace $1 with your desired argument): > > 1. To quickly find files and directories in "My Documents" and Desktop > (down to a certain depth): > > find "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USER/Desktop" \ > "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USER/My Documents" \ > -maxdepth 3 | grep "$1" My desktop is empty and I keep nothing under C:\Documents and Settings nor "My Documents". In fact I've hacked them out of my registry. I have C:\Home\$USER (known to Cygwin as ~$USER) and no "My Documents" anywhere. And again, my desktop has nothing on it. > 2. To open an Explorer window in a specified directory (given in > Cygwin style), or to open a document in the proper Windows application: > > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/explorer `cygpath -w "$1"` They're are lots of methods for this. Indeed simply type "explorer ." works! Need it shorter "alias e=explorer" then "e ."! -- Andrew DeFaria Just for today, I will not sit in my living room all day in my underwear. Instead, I will move my computer into the bedroom. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/