[Newbie] Opening Files in a Folder

Sat Feb 25 08:40:00 GMT 2006

On 2006年2月24日, Michael Banks wrote:
> Hello,

Hi. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL>. Thanks.
> Suppose I have a folder on the desktop that contains a number of files.
> I would like to select only the .jpg files and then open them in a) a
> particular app if possible, or b) whatever app is associated with the
> .jpg extension.
>> I think the syntax would look like:
>> find "C:/path/to/desktop/images" -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 <some command to open these files>
>> I don't know what should be substituted for <some command to open these
> files>. Any ideas?

"cygstart" for b). But you'd need to change your command line to
find "C:/path/to/desktop/images" -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | \
 xargs -r0 -n1 cygstart
If you want to do a) (i.e., open the files in a given application), most
of the time you can simply supply the filenames to the application, after
putting them in Windows form, i.e.,
find "C:/path/to/desktop/images" -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | \
 xargs -r0 cygpath -aw | xargs -r -d'\n' your_app
Depending on whether your_app is able to accept multiple files at once,
you may or may not want to add "-n1" to xargs...
HTH,
	Igor
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