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Subject:  The Beauty of Cygstart
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:01:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,
Cygstart is one of the marvels of Cygwin as it helps bridge Windows apps 
and *nix. Specifically Cygstart understands Windows File Associations 
(amongst other things)

So you can type say

> cygstart finances.doc

And this will open the file in MSWord or whatever

I use the following "typing saving" function

function cs() {cygstart *$1*}

> cs fin

As often the file I want is the most recent this function is also useful

function csn() {cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t *.* | head -1)"}

zzapper

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