Is there a command to open a folder in a window from the command line in Windows (like “open” on MacOS X)?

Question

Like this but for Windows. Preferably from Cygwin, and with relative paths

$ open ./

Answer 1

To launch the current directory:

From cmd.exe, you can just type start . to launch Explorer.

If you use PowerShell, you can use invoke-item . or the alias ii .

You can replace "." with any directory path.