The Beauty of Cygstart
zzapper
david@tvis.co.uk
Fri Mar 24 10:11:00 GMT 2006
Hi,
Cygstart is one of the marvels of Cygwin as it helps bridge Windows apps
and *nix. Specifically Cygstart understands Windows File Associations
(amongst other things)
So you can type say
> cygstart finances.doc
And this will open the file in MSWord or whatever
I use the following "typing saving" function
function cs() {cygstart *$1*}
> cs fin
As often the file I want is the most recent this function is also useful
function csn() {cygstart "$(/bin/ls -t *.* | head -1)"}
zzapper
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