You may or may not be familiar with the open command in the terminal application. With the open command you can type
“open .”
at the command line and a Finder window will appear. You can also type
“open <filename>”
and the file will be opened with it’s associated application, as if you double clicked on it from the finder.

Now suppose you’re a Mac aficionado using Windows. You’ve installed Cygwin to gain access to the power of Unix but you miss the open command. The following script can help you out.

#!/usr/bin/bash
 
if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
  echo "I'm hungry give me a parameter."
  exit
fi
 
PARAM=`cygpath --dos --absolute "$1"`
 
/cygdrive/c/Windows/explorer.exe $PARAM &

UPDATE: Or you can alias the cygstart command in your .bashrc file as this stackoverflow posting explains.

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