Please find below some Cygwin tips. You can launch the following commands from a MS-DOS shell providing that PATH contains the full path to Cygwin’s binaries.
–> how to open a Windows Application from shell
cygstart report.doc (calls word)
cygstart . (Open explorer)
cygstart / (Open explorer)
cygstart -x . (Open explorer)
–>Launch Internet Explorer with a given url
cygstart http://www.cygwin.com
–>Display the content of a README file into Notepad
cygstart –print README.txt
