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

The closest thing available is start.

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If its first argument is double-quoted, that argument is treated as a window title rather than a filename. Thus, to use it robustly, add an empty string as the first argument:

start "" "my filename.foo"

_{Thank you to @Holger for pointing this out!}

Answer 2

Only explorer.exe appears to work under cygwin.

Answer 3

Use start
I am using Windows 10 and:

> start .          

Opens the current directory in File Explorer

> start text.txt

Opened text file in Notepad++ (It is set as my default Txt editor)