Open Windows Explorer from Cygwin prompt

[Christian Franke]

Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Christian Franke wrote:
>> Cygstart is not needed in this case. Explorer can be launched directly.
>> This works from cmd.exe and from any cygwin shell:
>>
>> explorer .
>
> You are right, this is equivalent in this specific case.
> But cygstart can also open Cygwin-style directories, explorer can't:
>
> cygstart ~
> cygstart /etc
> cygstart dir1/dir2
>
Of course, in these cases cygstart is actually more convenient than:

explorer "$(cygpath -w ~)"
explorer "$(cygpath -w /etc)"
explorer "$(cygpath -w dir1/dir2)"

:-)


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