From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:24:08 -0400
Subject: RE: Open Windows Explorer from Cygwin prompt
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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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