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RE: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "Rex Godby" <rwg3 at york dot ac dot uk>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:01:05 -0500
- Subject: RE: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation
Rex Godby wrote on Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:54 AM:
> Two tiny Cygwin shell scripts may be of use. Each script has a
> single active line, which I include here (to try these from the
> command line, of course replace $1 with your desired argument):
>
> 1. To quickly find files and directories in "My Documents" and
> Desktop (down to a certain depth):
>
> find "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USER/Desktop" \
> "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USER/My Documents" \
> -maxdepth 3 | grep "$1"
>
> 2. To open an Explorer window in a specified directory (given in
> Cygwin style), or to open a document in the proper Windows
> application:
>
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/explorer `cygpath -w "$1"`
As long as we're at it:
/c> cat /usr/local/bin/explore
#!/bin/bash
cygstart --explore "${1:-.}"
This opens Windows Explorer in the directory specified on the command
line, or in the current directory if no directory is specified.
- Barry
- Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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