Windows equivalent of the Mac OS X “open” command

Question

Liu Chang asked a very similar question to this one here, Linux equivalent of the Mac OS X "open" command.

Is there a windows equivalent for the Mac OS X \"ope

Answer 1

If you use cygwin (or git bash), here's a quick script hack. Change the EDITOR to be whatever you want:

#!/bin/sh
# open

EDITOR="exec subl.exe"
BROWSER="/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe"

if [ -d "$1" ]; then
    exec explorer.exe $(cygpath -w "$1")
elif [ -f "$1" ]; then
    path=$(cygpath --windows "$1")
    case "$1" in
    *.xml) $EDITOR "$1";;
    *.txt) $EDITOR "$1";;
    *.html) "$BROWSER" "$path";;
    file://*) "$BROWSER" "$path";;
    http://*) "$BROWSER" "$path";;
    https://*) "$BROWSER" "$path";;
    esac
else
    # TODO non-existent file/dir
    echo "non existent file: $1"
    exit 1
fi

exit 0