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CHere: A Cygwin 'Trick' To Remember

There has long been a “Command Prompt Here” facility in the Windows Explorer. Originally it was provided via a PowerToy, but it has since become a standard feature. Cygwin has also adopted this, and provides the chere utility to help set up Explorer context menu items:

Try:

chere -in -e "Open Bash Window Here"

The end result is:

I always forget this, so I’ll put it here, where it can help me and perhaps also the rest of the blogosphere.

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