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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Doug Landauer <landauer at got dot net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:03:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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