On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
