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Re: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation
- From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:51:23 -0600
- Subject: Re: Two short scripts for Cygwin-Windows interoperation
- References: <loom.20070104T172439-137@post.gmane.org>
Rex Godby wrote:
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 "$1"
My desktop is empty and I keep nothing under C:\Documents and Settings
nor "My Documents". In fact I've hacked them out of my registry. I have
C:\Home\$USER (known to Cygwin as ~$USER) and no "My Documents"
anywhere. And again, my desktop has nothing on it.
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"`
They're are lots of methods for this. Indeed simply type "explorer ."
works! Need it shorter "alias e=explorer" then "e ."!
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Just for today, I will not sit in my living room all day in my
underwear. Instead, I will move my computer into the bedroom.
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