command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Doug Landauer]

[This followup was posted to gmane.os.cygwin and a copy was sent to the 
cited author.]

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" can do.


  Thanks in advance,
  Doug L.
  tmp@i.am



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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Dean Austin]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:01:51PM -0700, Doug Landauer wrote:
> [This followup was posted to gmane.os.cygwin and a copy was sent to the 
> cited author.]
> 
> 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" can do.
> 
> 
If no one else has answered this, try "man cygstart".  cygstart --open
should give you what you're looking for.

Regards,

Dean


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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Randall R Schulz]

Dean,

The admonition to search the archives before posting applies to answering 
as well as asking.

You were the third to recommend "cygstart."

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 13:36 2002-09-13, you wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:01:51PM -0700, Doug Landauer wrote:
> >
> > Does cygwin include a command-line command that would open a
> > WindowsExplorer window pointing at the current directory?
> >
> > ...
> >
>If no one else has answered this, try "man cygstart".  cygstart --open 
>should give you what you're looking for.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dean


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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[tmp]

Randall wrote:
> ... when this question came up a little while back (subtle
> enough for ya'?), someone mentioned "cygstart" ...

Hey wow, an FSF-related mailing list search function that
doesn't take 5 minutes to do a search!  Whaddaya know.

Sorry for the extra bandwidth.  For reference, the June
discussion about this topic had the subject
  Useful Cygwinism: "Explorer Here"
and started with
  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg01595.html


FWIW, here's what I ended up with:  two one-liner scripts in
my bin directory.  One is called "o" and looks like this:

    explorer `cygpath -w -a "${1-.}"`

it opens a one-pane explorer (no "Folders" showing).

My other script is called "oe" and adds the "/e" argument:

    explorer /e,`cygpath -w -a "${1-.}"`

This one opens a two-pane explorer, showing the Folders tree.

If I get more ambitious, someday I might perhaps figure out how
to install the cygutils package to get "cygstart".   But for now,
my cygwin doesn't seem to have it (nor does the ".inputrc" file
mentioned in the above thread have any effect at all), and these
mysteries will remain for some future, um, Exploration.

Anyway, thanks for all the help!

 -- Doug L. 


-=-=-=-

food. shelter. clothing. net.         Got.net - The Internet Connection, Inc


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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Shankar Unni]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 12:00, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> Just try:
> $ cygstart .

Or even
   explorer .		# opens the directory
   explorer /e,.		# explores the directory

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RE: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Robert Collins]

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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 13:04, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> What package and category is that in? I don't have it.

You can search for it on the cygwin web site - use the packages link.

Rob

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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Robert Collins]

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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 12:00, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

Just try:
$ cygstart .

Rob


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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Randall R Schulz]

Igor, Doug,

I wrote my own "open," but it was less than ideal (for one thing, I never 
figured out how to deal with file names that had spaces in them, though I 
didn't try all that hard).

However, when this question came up a little while back (subtle enough for 
ya'?), someone mentioned "cygstart" (part of the cygutils package).

That's what I'd recommend. It handles directories (they're sent to Windows 
Exlpoder) and URLs (sent to your default browser) and all other files with 
associations known on your system. Not to mention "much, much more" (like 
editing, printing, window control, etc.).

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:00 2002-09-12, 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" ...
> >
> >    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


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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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.
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Re: command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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.
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command to open Windows Explorer window "here"?

[Doug Landauer]

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.


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