Open a file from Cygwin

You can use the start command from the CMD like this:

 cmd /c start <your file>

explorer <your file>

works too. What is nice is

explorer .

opens a windows explorer window in the current directory. But then

 cygstart . 

does the same thing and does more, but I find 'explorer' slightly easier to remember.

You can also use the cygwin utility:

cygstart <your file>

To make things OSX-like add the following to your bashrc

alias open='cygstart'

Don't forget to check out the man page for cygstart.