Inspired by I-57

Under the windows cmd shell, there’s a command start that “does the right thing”. Give it a file, it’ll launch the right app and open it. Give it a directory, you get an explorer window there.

This doesn’t exist under cygwin’s shells, which is a PITA.

Here’s a zsh function to do the same thing. Put it in your .zshrc and call open FILE or open DIR.

open()
{
    if (( ${#argv} == 0 )); then
                    targetDir="."
    else
      targetDir=$1
    fi
    /cygdrive/c/windows/explorer.exe /e,`cygpath -w "$targetDir"`
}