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		ImaCake on Sept 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI Windows terminal + wsl is good, but I think the native terminal in MacOS is still much better to use. In the Win 11 beta the ease of use is pretty similar, but the unix terminal is just better integrated into MacOS. Probably my favourite terminal command is `open` which on MacOS lets me open any file in the associated application. I haven't found the same for WSL yet.

rashil2000 on Sept 11, 2021 [–]

`<filename>` from Windows, or `explorer.exe <filename>` from WSL. As simple as that.

ImaCake on Sept 12, 2021 | [–]

Hah, I was kinda hoping someone would know a trick I just hadn't found yet! Thanks for this. I set an alias so `open='explorer.exe'` which saves me some typing and muscle memory.

vips7L on Sept 12, 2021 | | [–]

If you use powershell

  ii filename

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