Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:03:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc: Doug Landauer Subject: Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, 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" that will decide which > > application is the "right" one to use for just about any argument you > > give it. When you say "open ." in Terminal, it will open a Finder > > window looking at that directory (".", i.e., the current directory). So > > I'm wondering whether cygwin on Windows has a similar function just to > > that subset of what Mac OS X's "open" does. > > > > 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 In fact, use `cygpath -w -a "$1"` to handle cases like ".", "..", etc. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- 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/