X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E691665.4030904@t-online.de> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:24:21 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Open Windows Explorer from Cygwin prompt References: <4E690DE0.8050204@freesbee.fr> <4E691163.1010309@t-online.de> <4E69139E.5050600@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4E69139E.5050600@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Vincent Rivière wrote: > 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 > Of course, in these cases cygstart is actually more convenient than: explorer "$(cygpath -w ~)" explorer "$(cygpath -w /etc)" explorer "$(cygpath -w dir1/dir2)" :-) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple