From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19574 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2016 22:10:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18504 invoked by uid 89); 20 Dec 2016 22:10:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Lee, HX-HELO:sk:mail-io, H*i:sk:LWdrLnV, H*f:sk:LWdrLnV X-HELO: mail-io0-f175.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f175.google.com) (209.85.223.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:10:04 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f175.google.com with SMTP id 15so8474870iom.2 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:10:03 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=85s3XmMM4UE84j0ujpI56AqR9HgqbYQcMuGe3GACbEk=; b=UjJAnkF9wO27KREihr4SaFcdNsBg4ZA/2g2q6BWfaW8O9QxqwMH/pdtNbXPmeR9PzQ FGH0gdBBH2ZNHpVs9HD+4okbHPOe8Vj1dRVRN6L2hy0LFi6VStKsI6Ilxzrd3ehffiDi r+5lS4IGcmcyTcOGc9Gf6JNwmGe7dWDLi5HxvgRs/VG1bXHR1fSXs9s0jvyP1y1KTY4/ vvBWZCIgWxTpytMrWW1h3/i8p/NVHvKC1PcAWE8nbgUCVsehtlgQ/w3+ivfrBYdDgMYv JlaQ92bO9oImqvDQ4UfkrdP1S1Bh2rKwGY1O1X2p2cbWHhUf4z4ajaO47OwoBxLwycL3 1bCw== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXLMuBJIO6EqLiRbb1e1fuT3ejhfF5lE4qaWa2B0o7NaDPRmQ11xI/JJbvKzHP7UIA== X-Received: by 10.107.9.82 with SMTP id j79mr2285015ioi.197.1482271801920; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x190sm9650779ite.14.2016.12.20.14.10.01 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:10:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: open IE from command line To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBD5906@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <107fb9c8-4039-6e41-ae15-498feb692ec1@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:10:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00204.txt.bz2 On 12/20/2016 12:20 PM, Lee wrote: > On 12/20/16, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> How to open a web page (remote or local) or launch IE from the mintty/bash >> command line? >> >> I've tried the following: >> >> $ cygstart "http://www.google.com" >> $ cygstart index.html # local page >> $ "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe" >> $ cygstart "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe" >> >> If IE is already open, the first two examples work, but otherwise, >> for all 4, IE flashes a window, which immediately closes. > > how about > cmd /c "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "www.google.com" > Or you can get by with $ cmd /c start http://www.google.com -- cyg Simple -- 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