I am using a cygwin shell in windows 10. I am trying to figure out how to open chrome from the command line. I have tried typing chrome, google-chrome, chromium-browser, start chrome, open chrome, and many variations. I have even tried using my python shell, and I have also tried going to the folder where chrome.exe is located and opening it from there. The main reason I want to figure it out is because I plan to write HTML documents with python and then open them in chrome. Any ideas?
Did you try ./chrome.exe while being in the directory where the file is located? The path ./ is probably needed before the file name since the executable is not in a standard system path. You can of course also specify the full path to the file as well.
Use
cygstart "C:\path\to\chrome.exe"
or to open a specific URL,
cygstart "http://my/url.htm"
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I open files in WebStorm from the terminal with the command webstorm . when I'm working in a directory.
Is there a way to change the command webstorm to anything more, like wstorm or something shorter to open files fluently?
I'm using macOS.
I Know one way but it's temporary, works untill you close the terminal.
-in your terminal
W=webstorm
then you can use $W in your command instead of webstorm.
Looks like the hint above is very good.
So assuming the shell script "webstorm" is working and your question is how to modify the command AND you want to do it fluently.
Make an alias (your shell may vary, mine is bash)
in the appropriate 'dot' file for your shell
add an alias for webstorm -e like this
alias we='webstorm -e'
now when I want to open a file quickly I type
we filename
And this opens Webstorm in LightEdit mode which opens faster and has a link to access full IDE.
Works like a charm. Also, you could make more than one alias so say ws for the full ide. Enjoy
I really like coding in bash, but there used to be many limitations of bash functionality in Windows. Though now there are many benefits to the bash windows users now rather than how it was pre windows 10. However, with all of the improvements, there is one thing that I feel leaves to be desired for me. The default behavior of the double-click of .sh files never really was able to do anything in windows, the .sh file extension isn't even available in the "choose default apps by file type" section of the settings. I had a desire to be able to change the default action for .sh files but neglected it and shook it off for a while, but this link finally gave me hope.
Before Ubuntu terminal and the addition of Windows subsystem for Linux, there was really no way to access bash terminal on Windows without a VM. Now with the addition of Windows Terminal which combines Microsoft Azure Terminal, Command Prompt, Powershell, and Ubuntu, it is really awesome for people like me, but despite the new awesome additions to windows allowing further integration of Linux terminal into Windows, even being able to edit the C: drive with Ubuntu.
I am sure there is a way to allow double-click of .sh files to open in windows terminal Ubuntu, but I don't know how. This question helped me on my journey to figure out how to do it and helped me make the default .bat file behavior change to Windows terminal, but I still have come to an enpass where I truly believe that it is not possible. So here is where I go when I have given up, the magical land of Stack Overflow :)
Attempts
So far I have looked into the "Choose default apps by file extension" section of settings and could not find .sh in there nor could I find it in any of the default apps sections of normal settings.
After I couldn't find anything about .sh in settings, I looked into the registry and looked for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and looked for sh or anything bash file related in HCR alone, HCR\*\shell, HCR\*\shellx, and HCR\*\Openwithlist and could not find anything.
I then tried to do ftype, but I could not find how to use ftype with .sh. I tried doing ftype .sh="C:\Users\asian\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe" -p "Ubuntu" "%1" %* but i got the error "File type '.sh' not found or no open command associated with it."
I Also tried just clicking the .sh file so it brings up the "How do you want to open this file" menu and went to Windows Terminal but it opened the bash file in powershell with the error [error 0x800700c1 when launching `C:\Users\asian\Desktop\test.sh']
These where everything I could think of and none of it was working. Help and pointers are appreciated. Thank you!
I suggest you install the Git for Windows package, as it comes with a light-weight bash environment. This is likely to be able to be in the list of available apps when right-click -> Properties on a .sh or .bash file and say Open With and click the Change button next to Open With.
Other options are Cygwin or WSL for a 95% pure Linux environment on Windows.
I use the windows 10 pro version and open the command prompt as the administrator to run the windows commands in my laptop. Using the assoc command to change the file extension file to another different (e.g. assoc .jpg=txtfile), I find nothing changed after running it and still that jpeg file opens with the regular program instead of notepad. In addition I can see the only change in by typing just the assoc and running it when a list of extensions belonging to different programs appears. Fo instance I have changed the .jpg file to txt file that it shows only as '.jpg=txtfile" in the list but tyat is still opened in jpeg program not notpad? Is anyone here to help me with clearly. Thanks
You need to use ftype as well. I have a link saved to MS docs that says it is up-to-date till Win8: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/cc771394(v=ws.11).
Maybe nothing has changed in Win10, but you get the idea from the above and can Google it for Win10.
I want to open a HTML file using cmd, located in the autostart folder using internet explorer, even tho for example Firefox is selected for standard browser.
I already navigated to the autostart folder.
How can I do that?
Or what is the command for that?
%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" file://path_to_file
Refer to the command line options for IE11 for details of options that you might need
How do i launch firefox from perl? i just need to launch the browser so WWW::Mechanize::Firefox can manipulate it. Searching around stackoverflow ive seen a few solutionsl like system('start cmd.exe /k $cmd) where $cmd is arguments to throw as input once cmd is started.
However, these have not helped me to solve my problem at all.
solutions ive tried
system("start cmd.exe /k start firefox");
system("firefox");
system("cmd","start","firefox");
system("cmd start firefox");
Basically a lot of the alternatives ive found, but i could not launch Firefox browser at all.
You're on the right track. Your second line is almost correct. If firefox is not in your PATH environment variable, you need to supply the complete path.
Click on the Firefox icon on your desktop, open the properties and check where the firefox executable is located. Then use that with your system call.
For me, it looks like this (the ' are for Perl's string, the " are for the Windows shell, because the path has spaces in it):
system('"C:\Programme\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"');
You can test it by opening a new command line (win + r, cmd), cding to the directory where your Perl program is run from, and just entering the command:
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\simbabque>"C:\Programme\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
It will not print anything, but just open a new Firefox window after a couple of seconds. So you'd probably need to hold your program execution in Perl while the browser is starting up.
WWW::Mechanize::Firefox will launch firefox for you but you can use
system 1, qq{$ENV{PROGRAMFILES}\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe}