Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command Line
Ajay Simha
asimha@cisco.com
Wed Feb 19 22:29:00 GMT 2003
On Wed Feb 19 16:46:43 2003, Steve wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I managed to get my script "word" to open up word with the path I typed
> on the command line in cygwin.
>
> I am having trouble getting the same to work with excel.
>
> I am win 2000 and using cygwin.
>
> I made a script in /usr/local/bin called "excel".
>
> The script will boot up excel, but not with the file I specified. I get
> error messages saying that the file does not exist. Between the "==="
> lines are the different contests I have tried for my "excel" script:
Why bother with this?
Just use "cygstart filename.doc"
or "cygstart filename.xls"
and as long as you have setup default handlers for those filetypes it works.
I even use this inside my mailcap.
-ajay
>
>
> version 1
> ============================================================
> exec "c:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/EXCEL.EXE" "cygpath -w $1"
>
> ===========================================================
> version 2
> exec "c:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/EXCEL.EXE" "@&"
>
>
> Usage:
>
> $ word /path/to/file.xls
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
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