Windows cygwin equivalent of Mac OS X open command

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I realize this is almost identical to Windows equivalent of the Mac OS X “open” command and Linux equivalent of the Mac OS X "open" command, but I'm asking specifically about a command I can run in the Cygwin shell to use the current Windows UI application bound for the argument's extension, that as on OS X opens that application if necessary, and opens the specified file in that application.

The cmd.exe start command isn't an option in the Cygwin shell, nor are xdg-open or gnome-open available through Cygwin.

Is there an equivalent?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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You seem to have missed this one:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Feb 24 '09 at 22:20

Yup, both manual and automatic search didn't find that one. Thanks. – UltraNurd Mar 02 '09 at 18:15
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For people too lazy to follow links, the command referenced above is "cygstart". – UltraNurd Mar 08 '11 at 15:19

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