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How to open a window from terminal in cygwin on vista

James Young — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:42:11 +0000

So I got a new Dell through work with Vista installed. Naturally one of the first things I did was install cygwin so I can use mintty. This gives me a decent terminal on widnows. If you don’t know what those are, I encourage you to give them a shot.

Anyway, having used a mac forever, I found myself missing the ‘open’ command that you can do from Terminal (on the mac) to pop open a window from the directory you are in.

With a quick search, I found that someone else already figured this out, so I am going to post my version of it here:

In your .bash_profile, add this:

alias open="cygstart \$1"

Then in mintty (or any cygwin terminal) you can cd to where ever you want, then just do ‘open [path]‘ and it will pop open a windows window for [path].

Examples:

open current directory: $ open .
open home directory : $ open ~
open program files: $ open ~/c/Program\ Files

Note: that last one assumes you have made a symlink in your home to /cygdrive/c/

$ cd ~; ln -s /cygdrive/c

Here is the original thread that I found this tip in:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00632.html

There are a few solutions posted, my favorite is:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00635.html

My .bash_profile

James Young — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:11:10 +0000

.bash_profile, .profile, .bash_rc …

if [ "$PS1" != "" ]; then
    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
    PS1="[\e[1;33m\u::${HOSTNAME} \t\[\e[1;35m\e[0m\]]$ "
fi
 
alias ls='ls -G'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias la='ll -a'
alias env='env | sort'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias :e=vim
alias grepr='grep -rHn'
# finds and removes the ._ files that textmate creates
alias findmatefiles='find . -name ._*'
alias rmmatefiles='find . -name ._* -exec rm {} \;'
 
export DEVROOT=~/dev/
export HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history
export HISTSIZE=5000
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/Applications/MAMP/bin:/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:/home/y/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/y/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:.
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
 
setenv () { export $1="$2"; }
unsetenv () { unset $*; }

command line reporting

James Young — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:52:53 +0000

Here are some things I have done in the past to pull data out of log files. I find myself referring to this list from time to time to remember how I did things in the past.

Real Queries That May Need To Be Repeated
 
ATT YIH upgrades in the month of 200709
$ listysftclog 200709* | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/(yihupg[^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sort -r | uniq -c
 
Scratch Work
These searches are mostly captures in cronjobs and shell scripts. Using this page as a place to store some of them while working them out.
 
Misc Searches
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/beacon.choice~([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sed 's/&/\&/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 
Get page views for att/v4 choice page
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | grep choice.php | grep result~200 | wc -l
 
Get uniq visits to choice page
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | grep result~200 | cut -f10 -d\| | sort | uniq | wc -l
 
Get all user agents
This still needs some work, there is a ^D in there that needs to be removed
$ cat /home/y/logs/ysftc/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/choiceua([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 
Get Windows users
$ cat /home/y/logs/ysftc/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/choiceua([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | grep Windows | wc -l
 
Get Mac users
$ cat /home/y/logs/ysftc/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/choiceua([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | grep Mac | wc -l
 
Specific examples
   * Replace & in search results with &
$ cat ~/ysftc.log | grep att/v4 | perl -ne 'if(/beacon.choice~([^|]*)/){print $1."\n";}' | sed 's/&/\&/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 23 AT&T Yahoo! Online Protection
 13 Parental Controls
 11 AT&T Yahoo! Messenger
 11 AT&T Yahoo! Browser
 11 AT&T Toolbar
  6 Connection Manager
  2 AT&T Pop-Up Blocker
  1 AT&T Security Suite SM