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

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

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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